Re: Parallel pg_restore versus old dump files

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 03:26, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>>> 4. Is there any value in back-porting the Windows FSEEKO support into
>>> 8.3 and 8.2?  Arguably, not writing the data offsets is a performance
>>> bug.  However a back-port won't do anything for people who are dumping
>>> with less than the latest minor release of pg_dump, so doing this might
>>> be largely wasted effort.
>
>> I doubt it's worth it, but I could be persuaded otherwise.
>
> I'm leaning in that direction too.  Anybody who's doing a version
> upgrade really ought to be using the newer pg_dump version anyway ...

+1 on not backpatching that stuff - it's build system related, so it's
kind of fragile on the windows side :-)

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