Re: pg_dump lock timeout
daveg <[email protected]>
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On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 05:55:01AM -0700, daveg wrote: > On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 11:15:10AM +0300, Marko Kreen wrote: > > On 5/11/08, daveg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Attached is a patch to add a commandline option to pg_dump to limit how long > > > pg_dump will wait for locks during startup. > > > > My quick review: > > > > - It does not seem important enough to waste a short option on. > > Having only long option should be enough. > > Agreed. I'll change it. > > > - It would be more polite to do SET LOCAL instead SET. > > (Eg. it makes safer to use pg_dump through pooler.) > > Also agreed. Thanks. On second glance, pg_dump sets lots of variables without using SET LOCAL. I think fixing that must be the subject of a separate patch as fixing just one of many will only cause confusion. > > - The statement_timeout is set back with "statement_timeout = default" > > Maybe it would be better to do "= 0" here? Although such decision > > would go outside the scope of the patch, I see no sense having > > any other statement_timeout for actual dumping. > > I'd prefer to leave whatever policy is otherwise in place alone. I can see > use cases for either having or not having a timeout for pg_dump, but it does > seem outside the scope of this patch. As it happens, another patch has set the policy to "statement_timeout = 0", so I will follow that. I'm sending in the revised patch today. -dg -- David Gould [email protected] 510 536 1443 510 282 0869 If simplicity worked, the world would be overrun with insects. -- Sent via pgsql-patches mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-patches