On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 11:15:10AM +0300, Marko Kreen wrote:
> On 5/11/08, daveg <daveg@sonic.net> wrote:
> > Attached is a patch to add a commandline option to pg_dump to limit how long
> > pg_dump will wait for locks during startup.
>
> My quick review:
>
> - It does not seem important enough to waste a short option on.
> Having only long option should be enough.
Agreed. I'll change it.
> - It would be more polite to do SET LOCAL instead SET.
> (Eg. it makes safer to use pg_dump through pooler.)
Also agreed. Thanks.
> - The statement_timeout is set back with "statement_timeout = default"
> Maybe it would be better to do "= 0" here? Although such decision
> would go outside the scope of the patch, I see no sense having
> any other statement_timeout for actual dumping.
I'd prefer to leave whatever policy is otherwise in place alone. I can see
use cases for either having or not having a timeout for pg_dump, but it does
seem outside the scope of this patch.
Thanks for you review and comments.
-dg
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