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Re: WIP patch for parallel pg_dump

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Joachim Wieland <joe@mcknight.de>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-12-02T22:01:16Z
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Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> That's a big patch..

Not nearly big enough :-(

In the past, proposals for this have always been rejected on the grounds
that it's impossible to assure a consistent dump if different
connections are used to read different tables.  I fail to understand
why that consideration can be allowed to go by the wayside now.

			regards, tom lane