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Re: WIP patch for parallel pg_dump

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

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From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, Joachim Wieland <joe@mcknight.de>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-12-06T15:35:56Z
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On 12/06/2010 10:22 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
> <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>  wrote:
>> On 06.12.2010 15:53, Robert Haas wrote:
>>> I guess.  It still seems far too much like exposing the server's guts
>>> for my taste.  It might not be as bad as the expression tree stuff,
>>> but there's nothing particularly good about it either.
>> Note that we already have txid_current_snapshot() function, which exposes
>> all that.
> Fair enough, and I think that's actually useful for Slony&c.  But I
> don't think we should shy away of providing a cleaner API here.
>

Just don't let the perfect get in the way of the good :P

cheers

andrew