Re: pg_dump directory archive format / parallel pg_dump

From: Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Joachim Wieland <joe(at)mcknight(dot)de>, Jaime Casanova <jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_dump directory archive format / parallel pg_dump
Date: 2011-02-09 01:31:00
Message-ID: AANLkTinCT_EFYBd2+-yO9kuA4a16iXw1U-F5T5BYBagm@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 13:34, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> So how close are we to having a committable version of this?  Should
> we push this out to 9.2?

I think so. The feature is pretty attractive, but more works are required:
* Re-base on synchronized snapshots patch
* Consider to use pipe also on Windows.
* Research libpq + fork() issue. We have a warning in docs:
http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/libpq-connect.html
| On Unix, forking a process with open libpq connections can lead to
unpredictable results

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Itagaki Takahiro

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