Saturday, August 2, 2008

Re: [PATCHES] pg_dump additional options for performance

chris <cbbrowne@ca.afilias.info> writes:
> Do we need to wait until a fully-parallelizing pg_restore is
> implemented before adding this functionality to pg_dump?

They're independent problems ... and I would venture that parallel
dump is harder.

> Further, it's actually not obvious that we *necessarily* care about
> parallelizing loading data. The thing that happens every day is
> backups.

Maybe so, but I would say that routine backups shouldn't be designed
to eat 100% of your disk bandwidth anyway --- they'd be more like
background tasks.

regards, tom lane

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