Re: patch for parallel pg_dump

Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> most places that issue queries can simply use those routines without
> needing to peek under the hood into the ArchiveHandle. This is not
> quite enough to get rid of g_conn, but it's close: the major stumbling
> block at this point is probably exit_nicely(). The gyrations we're
> going through to make sure that AH->connection gets closed before
> exiting are fairly annoying; maybe we should invent something in
> dumputils.c along the line of the backend's on_shmem_exit().

Do we actually care about closing the connection? Worst case is that
backend logs an "unexpected EOF" message. But yeah, an atexit hook
might be the easiest solution.

regards, tom lane