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

From: Laurent Laborde <kerdezixe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Jan Lentfer <Jan(dot)Lentfer(at)web(dot)de>, Sawada Masahiko <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Dilip kumar <dilip(dot)kumar(at)huawei(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Euler Taveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com(dot)br>
Subject: Re: TODO : Allow parallel cores to be used by vacuumdb [ WIP ]
Date: 2015-07-24 06:58:30
Message-ID: CAEy3c_QwKPhtnmhOH=CRScm=7OREXiAoS+oHK-HsL3Fk+n-s_g@mail.gmail.com
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Le 23 juil. 2015 19:27, "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> a
écrit :
>
> 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?

Purely academical. I don't use it.

> > 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.

That's why i'm working on it :)

--
Laurent "ker2x" Laborde
DBA \o/ gandi.net

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