Re: pg_dump directory archive format / parallel pg_dump

Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com>

From: Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Joachim Wieland <joe@mcknight.de>, Jaime Casanova <jaime@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-02-09T01:31:00Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 13:34, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> So how close are we to having a committable version of this?  Should
> we push this out to 9.2?

I think so. The feature is pretty attractive, but more works are required:
 * Re-base on synchronized snapshots patch
 * Consider to use pipe also on Windows.
 * Research libpq + fork() issue. We have a warning in docs:
http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/libpq-connect.html
| On Unix, forking a process with open libpq connections can lead to
unpredictable results

-- 
Itagaki Takahiro