Ron Johnson wrote:
> This is where a multi-threaded pg_tapedump would be more effective,
> since it would be able to, for example, have 4 threads reading
> (different parts of) the database and writing to 4 separate tape drives.
It will be difficult to have a consistent dump though. You can't do
that with separate transactions. (And you can't have multiple
simultaneous readers without separate transactions.)
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