Re: pg_dump additional options for performance

Tom Lane <[email protected]> Sat, 02 Aug 2008 11:24:01 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.patches
Message-ID <[email protected]>
chris <[email protected]> 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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