Re: WIP patch for parallel pg_dump

Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>

From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>
To: koichi.szk@gmail.com
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, marcin mank <marcin.mank@gmail.com>, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, Joachim Wieland <joe@mcknight.de>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-12-07T12:51:47Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 12/07/2010 09:23 AM, Koichi Suzuki wrote:
> This is what Postgres-XC is doing between a coordinator and a
> datanode.    Coordinator may correspond to poolers/loadbalancers.
> Does anyone think it makes sense to extract XC implementation of
> snapshot shipping to PostgreSQL itself?

well if there is a preeceeding implementation of that it would certainly
be of interest to see that - but before you go and extract the code
maybe you could tell us how exactly it works?



Stefan