Re: WIP patch for parallel pg_dump

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, Joachim Wieland <joe@mcknight.de>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-12-06T15:38:13Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
> On 12/06/2010 10:22 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Just don't let the perfect get in the way of the good :P

I'll keep that in mind.  :-)

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