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Re: Experimenting with hash tables inside pg_dump

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2021-10-22T18:36:44Z
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Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On October 22, 2021 8:54:13 AM PDT, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Were you planning to pursue this further, or did you want me to?

> It seems too nice an improvement to drop on the floor. That said, I don't really have the mental bandwidth to pursue this beyond the POC stage - it seemed complicated enough that suggestion accompanied by a prototype was a good idea. So I'd be happy for you to incorporate this into your other changes.

Cool, I'll see what I can do with it, as long as I'm poking around
in the area.

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. In pg_dump, use simplehash.h to look up dumpable objects by OID.

  2. Fix frontend version of sh_error() in simplehash.h.