"Kevin Grittner" <[email protected]> writes:
> "Kevin Grittner" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Did you happen to notice anything about pg_dump's memory
>>> consumption?
> I took a closer look, and there's some bad news, I think. The above
> numbers were from the ends of the range. I've gone back over and
> found that while it dropped about 2.1 GB almost immediately, cache
> usage slowly dropped throughout the dump, and bottomed at about 6.9
> GB below baseline.
OK, that's still not very scary --- it just means my off-the-cuff
estimate of 1:1 space usage was bad. 3:1 isn't that surprising either
given padding and other issues. The representation of ArchiveEntries
could probably be made a bit more compact ...
regards, tom lane
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