Re: patch for parallel pg_dump
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Joachim Wieland <joe@mcknight.de>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Date: 2012-04-03T15:59:36Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> Possibly we could move assert.c into src/port/ and make it part of >> libpgport? > The trouble is that it calls write_stderr(), which has a non-trivial > implementation on Windows that I don't believe will be suitable for > front-end code. If we can find a reasonable way to work around that > issue then I think that would work. Well, if we don't have a solution to that problem then it's premature to propose making Assert available to frontend code. So my opinion is that that idea is too half-baked to be pushing into 9.2 at this time. Let's put it on the to-do list instead. regards, tom lane