| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, Gurjeet Singh <singh(dot)gurjeet(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Proof of concept: standalone backend with full FE/BE protocol |
| Date: | 2013-12-10 03:42:41 |
| Message-ID: | 20131210034241.GG2119@momjian.us |
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On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 04:04:36PM +0100, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2013-12-05 23:01:28 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> > On 12/05/2013 10:37 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> > >On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > >>It might be unpleasant to use in some cases, though.
> > >
> > >Why would there be more than a few cases in the first place? Who is
> > >going to use this beyond psql, pg_dump(all), and pg_upgrade, and why?
> >
> > Well, you might want to use pgAdmin, or your other favorite admin tool. I'm
> > not sure how well it would work, and I think it's OK if we say "sorry, can't
> > do that", but it's not a crazy thing to want.
>
> Pgadmin wouldn't work, it uses multiple connections for anything but the
> most trivial tasks. You can't even send a manual sql query using only
> one connection.
> I think that's true for most of the non-trivial tools.
FYI, pg_upgrade in parallel mode needs multiple database connections
too.
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
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