Simon Riggs wrote:
>> I will not argue vehemently here but I will say that "jobs" doesn't
>> seem correct. The term "workers" seems more appropriate.
>>
>
> Agreed, but most utilities have "j" free but not w, p, t or other
> letters that might be synonyms.
>
> j is at least used for exactly this purpose in other tools.
>
>
There are in fact very few letters available, as we've been fairly
profligate in our use of option letters in the pg_dump suite.
j and m happen to be two of those that are available.
I honestly don't have a terribly strong opinion about what it should be
called. I can live with jobs or multi-threads.
cheers
andrew
