During pg_dump startup, acquire table locks in batches.

Combine multiple LOCK TABLE commands to reduce the number of
round trips to the server.  This is particularly helpful when
dumping from a remote server, but it seems useful even without
that.  In particular, shortening the time from seeing a table
in pg_class to acquiring lock on it reduces the window for
trouble from concurrent DDL.

Aleksander Alekseev, reviewed by Fabrízio de Royes Mello,
Gilles Darold, and Andres Freund

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJ7c6TO4z1+OBa-R+fC8FnaUgbEWJUf2Kq=nRngTW5EXtKru2g@mail.gmail.com

src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c

@@ -6470,6 +6470,8 @@ getTables(Archive *fout, int *numTables)
 		ExecuteSqlStatement(fout, query->data);
 	}
 
+	resetPQExpBuffer(query);
+
 	for (i = 0; i < ntups; i++)
 	{
 		tblinfo[i].dobj.objType = DO_TABLE;
@@ -6587,14 +6589,38 @@ getTables(Archive *fout, int *numTables)
 			(tblinfo[i].relkind == RELKIND_RELATION ||
 			 tblinfo[i].relkind == RELKIND_PARTITIONED_TABLE))
 		{
-			resetPQExpBuffer(query);
-			appendPQExpBuffer(query,
-							  "LOCK TABLE %s IN ACCESS SHARE MODE",
+			/*
+			 * Tables are locked in batches.  When dumping from a remote
+			 * server this can save a significant amount of time by reducing
+			 * the number of round trips.
+			 */
+			if (query->len == 0)
+				appendPQExpBuffer(query, "LOCK TABLE %s",
+								  fmtQualifiedDumpable(&tblinfo[i]));
+			else
+			{
+				appendPQExpBuffer(query, ", %s",
 								  fmtQualifiedDumpable(&tblinfo[i]));
+
+				/* Arbitrarily end a batch when query length reaches 100K. */
+				if (query->len >= 100000)
+				{
+					/* Lock another batch of tables. */
+					appendPQExpBufferStr(query, " IN ACCESS SHARE MODE");
 					ExecuteSqlStatement(fout, query->data);
+					resetPQExpBuffer(query);
+				}
+			}
 		}
 	}
 
+	if (query->len != 0)
+	{
+		/* Lock the tables in the last batch. */
+		appendPQExpBufferStr(query, " IN ACCESS SHARE MODE");
+		ExecuteSqlStatement(fout, query->data);
+	}
+
 	if (dopt->lockWaitTimeout)
 	{
 		ExecuteSqlStatement(fout, "SET statement_timeout = 0");