Re: patch for parallel pg_dump

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Joachim Wieland <joe@mcknight.de>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

Date: 2012-03-13T14:04:34Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Tuesday, March 13, 2012 02:48:11 PM Tom Lane wrote:
> (I'm also unconvinced that sorting by relation size is a good idea
> anyway.  Anything that makes the dump order less predictable gets
> push-back, IME.)
Why? Especially in the directory format - which is a prerequisite for parallel 
dump if I remember this correctly - I don't really see a negative point in a 
slightly changing dump order. Given its not deterministic anyway.

Andres