Re: patch for parallel pg_dump

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Joachim Wieland <joe@mcknight.de>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-03-13T18:10:45Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

On 03/13/2012 01:53 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>>
>> I tried this actually (patch attached) but then I wanted to test it
>> and couldn't find anything that used pgpipe() on Windows.
>>
>> pg_basebackup/pg_basebackup.c is using it but it's in an #ifndef WIN32
>> and the same is true for postmaster/syslogger.c. Am I missing
>> something or has this Windows implementation become stale by now? I'll
>> append the patch but haven't adapted the pg_dump patch yet to use it.
>> Should we still go forward the way you proposed?
> Dunno.  Can we get an opinion on that from one of the Windows guys?
> Andrew, Magnus?
>
>

I haven't had time to review this patch or even follow all the 
discussion as I was hoping. I'll try to review the whole thing shortly.

cheers

andrew