As a followup to Magnus's report that pg_upgrade was slow for many
tables, I did some more testing with many tables, e.g.:

        CREATE TABLE test991 (x SERIAL);

I ran it for 0, 1k, 2k, ... 16k tables, and got these results:

        tables    pg_dump     restore     pg_upgrade(increase)
            0       0.30        0.24       11.73(-)
         1000       6.46        6.55       28.79(2.45x)
         2000      29.82       20.96       69.75(2.42x)
         4000      95.70      115.88      289.82(4.16x)
         8000     405.38      505.93     1168.60(4.03x)
        16000    1702.23     2197.56     5022.82(4.30x)

Things look fine through 2k, but at 4k the duration of pg_dump, restore,
and pg_upgrade (which is mostly a combination of these two) is 4x,
rather than the 2x as predicted by the growth in the number of tables. 
To see how bad it is, 16k tables is 1.3 hours, and 32k tables would be
5.6 hours by my estimates.

You can see the majority of pg_upgrade duration is made up of the
pg_dump and the schema restore, so I can't really speed up pg_upgrade
without speeding those up, and the 4x increase is in _both_ of those
operations, not just one.

Also, for 16k, I had to increase max_locks_per_transaction or the dump
would fail, which kind of surprised me.

I tested 9.2 and git head, but they produced identical numbers.  I did
use synchronous_commit=off.

Any ideas?  I am attaching my test script.

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  Bruce Momjian  <br...@momjian.us>        http://momjian.us
  EnterpriseDB                             http://enterprisedb.com

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. traprm

export QUIET=$((QUIET + 1))

> /rtmp/out

for CYCLES in 1 1000 2000 4000 8000 16000
do
        echo "$CYCLES" >> /rtmp/out

        for DIR in /pgtoprel /pgtop
        do      echo "$DIR" >> /rtmp/out
                cd "$DIR"
                pginstall

                # need for +16k
                pipe sed 's/#max_locks_per_transaction = 
64/max_locks_per_transaction = 500/' /u/pg/data/postgresql.conf
                pgrestart
                sleep 2

                for JOT in $(jot "$CYCLES"); do echo "CREATE TABLE test$JOT (x 
SERIAL);"; done| PGOPTIONS="-c synchronous_commit=off" sql test
                echo "pg_dump creation" >> /rtmp/out
                /usr/bin/time --output=/rtmp/out --append --format '%e' aspg 
pg_dump test > $TMP/1
                newdb test
                echo "pg_dump restore" >> /rtmp/out
                PGOPTIONS="-c synchronous_commit=off" /usr/bin/time 
--output=/rtmp/out --append --format '%e' sql test < $TMP/1
                pgstop
                sleep 2
        done
        
        tools/setup
        sleep 2

        # need for +16k
        pipe sed 's/#max_locks_per_transaction = 64/max_locks_per_transaction = 
500/' /u/pgsql.old/data/postgresql.conf

        pgstart /u/pgsql.old/data
        sleep 2
        for JOT in $(jot "$CYCLES"); do echo "CREATE TABLE test$JOT (x 
SERIAL);"; done| PGOPTIONS="-c synchronous_commit=off" sql test
        pgstop /u/pgsql.old/data
        sleep 2
        /usr/bin/time --output=/rtmp/out --append --format '%e' tools/upgrade
done

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