A note about database design, though: there are thousands of tables
in this database, most of them inherited. I haven't looked at the
internals of pg_dump, but generally, how do the sequential scans
work? Why would these prevent the tables from being accessed by
queries that don't require exclusive locks?
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On May 23, 2005, at 3:18 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> Basically, it sounds like postgresql is doing a lot of very long
> sequential scans to do this backup. HAve you done a vacuum full
> lately? It could be that you've got a lot of table bloat that's
> making
> the seq scans take so long.