Re: patch for parallel pg_dump

On 03/28/2012 11:43 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> On 03/28/2012 09:12 PM, Joachim Wieland wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 2:46 AM, Andrew Dunstan<andrew@dunslane.net>  
>> wrote:
>>> But your patch hasn't got rid of them, and so it's declared twice. 
>>> There is
>>> no pgpipe.h, BTW, it's declared in port.h. If VC2005 doesn't 
>>> complain about
>>> the double declaration then that's a bug in the compiler, IMNSHO. 
>>> Doesn't it
>>> even issue a warning? I no longer use VC2005 for anything, BTW, I 
>>> use VC2008
>>> or later.
>> I agree, the compiler should have found it, but no, I don't even get a
>> warning. I just verified it and when I add a #error right after the
>> prototypes in port.h then it hits the #error on every file, so it
>> definitely sees both prototypes and doesn't complain... cl.exe is
>> running with /W3.
>>
>> src/bin/pg_dump/pg_backup_archiver.c
>>> Anyway, ISTM the best thing is just for us to get rid of pgpipe without
>>> further ado. I'll try to get a patch together for that.
>> Thanks.
>
>
> OK, I have committed this. Following that, you need to add a couple of 
> macros for pipewrite to parallel.c. There's also a missing cast in the 
> call to beginthreadex().
>
> I'll continue testing tomorrow.
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>


Here is an updated patch that builds now that pgpipe has been removed.

cheers

andrew