Re: WIP patch for parallel pg_dump - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: WIP patch for parallel pg_dump
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Msg-id 4CFD505C.9010708@enterprisedb.com
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In response to Re: WIP patch for parallel pg_dump  (marcin mank <marcin.mank@gmail.com>)
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On 06.12.2010 21:48, marcin mank wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Tom Lane<tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>  wrote:
>> IIRC, in old discussions of this problem we first considered allowing
>> clients to pull down an explicit representation of their snapshot (which
>> actually is an existing feature now, txid_current_snapshot()) and then
>> upload that again to become the active snapshot in another connection.
>
> Could a hot standby use such a snapshot representation? I.e. same
> snapshot on the master and the standby?

Hmm, I suppose it could. That's an interesting idea, you could run 
parallel pg_dump or something else against master and/or multiple hot 
standby servers, all working on the same snapshot.

--   Heikki Linnakangas  EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com


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