Re: pg_restore --multi-thread

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-02-12T16:32:40Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> The implementation is actually different across platforms: on Windows 
> the workers are genuine threads, while elsewhere they are forked 
> children in the same fashion as the backend (non-EXEC_BACKEND case). In 
> either case, the program will use up to NUM concurrent connections to 
> the server.

How about calling it --num-connections or something like that?  I agree
with Peter that "thread" is not the best terminology on platforms where
there is no threading involved.

			regards, tom lane