Re: [PERFORM] pg_dumpall affecting performance

2011-02-15 Thread Kevin Grittner
Mark Mikulec wrote: > The strange thing is that this started after my database grew by > about 25% after a large influx of data due to user load In addition to the issues already mentioned, there is the fact that to maintain consistency an entire database must be dumped in a single database tr

Re: [PERFORM] pg_dumpall affecting performance

2011-02-15 Thread Steve Crawford
On 02/15/2011 10:41 AM, Mark Mikulec wrote: Hello, I was under the impression that pg_dumpall didn't affect database performance when dumping while the db is live. However I have evidence to the contrary now - queries that are run during the pg_dumpall time take 10 to a 100 times longer to execu

Re: [PERFORM] pg_dumpall affecting performance

2011-02-15 Thread Plugge, Joe R.
] pg_dumpall affecting performance Hello, I was under the impression that pg_dumpall didn't affect database performance when dumping while the db is live. However I have evidence to the contrary now - queries that are run during the pg_dumpall time take 10 to a 100 times longer to execute

[PERFORM] pg_dumpall affecting performance

2011-02-15 Thread Mark Mikulec
Hello, I was under the impression that pg_dumpall didn't affect database performance when dumping while the db is live. However I have evidence to the contrary now - queries that are run during the pg_dumpall time take 10 to a 100 times longer to execute than normal while pg_dumpall is running. Th