Re: Pg_upgrade speed for many tables

On 11/05/2012 08:52 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Mon, Nov  5, 2012 at 05:39:40PM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>> Sorry, I should've said psql --single-transaction.  Although that isn't
>>> going to work either given the presence of \connect commands in the
>>> script.  I wonder whether pg_dumpall ought to have some sort of "one
>>> transaction per database please" option.
>> pg_dumpall ought to support -Fc output ...
> That is already a TODO:
>
>     Add pg_dumpall custom format dumps?


That '?' isn't an accident. Custom format is currently inherently 
single-database. Unless you're going to make pg_dumpall produce multiple 
custom format archives, that would involve a major change that nobody 
has designed AFAIK.


cheers

andrew