pg_restore --multi-thread
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-02-12T15:41:01Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
I know we've already had a discussion on the naming of the pg_restore -m option, but in any case this description in pg_restore --help is confusing: -m, --multi-thread=NUM use this many parallel connections to restore Either it is using that many threads in the client, or it is using that many connections to the server. I assume the implementation does approximately both, but we should be clear about what we promise to the user. Either: Reserve this many connections on the server. Or: Reserve this many threads in the kernel of the client. The documentation in the reference/man page is equally confused. Also, the term "multi" is redundant, because whether it is multi or single is obviously determined by the value of NUM.