Re: parallel restore vs. windows
Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Andrew Chernow <ac@esilo.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2008-12-09T16:34:06Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Andrew Chernow wrote: > > Looks like the ArchiveHandle variable 'AH' and the TocEntry > 'next_work_item' are not being deep copied at line 315 of your patch, > where you prepare the RestoreArgs struct for the thread. Every thread > is accessing and possibly updating the members of these structs that > need to be deep copied. > Each thread deals with a different TocEntry, which no other thread deals with, so there should be no need to clone it, I believe. Parts of AH need deep cloning, notably the formatData member, which is done in _ReopenArchive(). I am aware that there are some minor memory leaks, which I will remedy. cheers andrew