Re: WIP patch for parallel pg_dump

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>

Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, Joachim Wieland <joe@mcknight.de>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2010-12-06T15:22:53Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

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.

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Robert Haas
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