Re: TODO : Allow parallel cores to be used by vacuumdb [ WIP ]

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Laurent Laborde <kerdezixe(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dilip kumar <dilip(dot)kumar(at)huawei(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Jan Lentfer <Jan(dot)Lentfer(at)web(dot)de>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Sawada Masahiko <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>, Euler Taveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com(dot)br>
Subject: Re: TODO : Allow parallel cores to be used by vacuumdb [ WIP ]
Date: 2015-07-23 17:26:56
Message-ID: 20150723172656.GT5596@postgresql.org
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Laurent Laborde wrote:

> Friendly greetings !
>
> What's the status of parallel clusterdb please ?
> I'm having fun (and troubles) applying the vacuumdb patch to clusterdb.
>
> This thread also talk about unifying code for parallelizing clusterdb and
> reindex.
> Was anything done about it ? Because i can't see it and my work currently
> involve a lot of copy/pasting from vacuumdb to clusterdb :)

Honestly, I have to wonder whether there are really valid use cases for
clusterdb. Are you actually using it and want to see it improved, or is
this just an academical exercise?

> And no, (i'm pretty sure) i don't have the required postgresql knowledge to
> do this unification if it isn't done already.

You may or may not lack it *now*, but that doesn't mean you will
continue to lack it forever.

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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