Re: [HACKERS] lock contention on parallel COPY ?

On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 14:00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> > Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc> writes:
> >> samples % symbol name
> >> 55526 16.5614 LWLockAcquire
> >> 29721 8.8647 DoCopy
> >> 26581 7.9281 CopyReadLine
> >> 25105 7.4879 LWLockRelease
> >> 15743 4.6956 PinBuffer
> >> 14725 4.3919 heap_formtuple
>
> > Probably loading a table with a generated PK or loading data in
> > ascending sequence, so its contending heavily for the rightmost edge of
> > the index.
>
> No, given that DoCopy and CopyReadLine are right up there, I think we're
> still looking at the COPY phase, not index building.
>
> The profile will probably change completely once index building
> starts...

Sorry, was assuming we were loading with indexes on, which is wrong.

Agree the profile looks odd.

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