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

From Erik Rijkers
Subject Re: patch for parallel pg_dump
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Msg-id 5aa999b83aaafc77d612842e27a2619d.squirrel@webmail.xs4all.nl
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In response to Re: patch for parallel pg_dump  (Joachim Wieland <joe@mcknight.de>)
Responses Re: patch for parallel pg_dump  ("Erik Rijkers" <er@xs4all.nl>)
Re: patch for parallel pg_dump  (Joachim Wieland <joe@mcknight.de>)
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On Tue, March 20, 2012 04:04, Joachim Wieland wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>> Sounds good to me in general ... my only gripe is this: I wonder if it
>> would be better to have a central routine that knows about both
>> archive_close_connection and archive_close_connection_parallel -- and
>> the argument to the callback is a struct that contains both a pointer to
>> the struct with the connection to be closed [...]
>
> I had a similar idea before but then concluded that for it you need to
> have this struct globally available so that everybody (pg_dump.c /
> pg_restore.c / pg_backup_archive.c) can access it to set the
> appropriate state.
>
> I gave it a second thought and now just defined a function that these
> consumers can call, that way the variable can stay at file scope at
> least.
>
> Also we don't need this switch, we can set the ParallelState in the
> struct before any child forks off and reset it to NULL after the last
> child has terminated.
>
> New patch attached, thanks for your comments.
>

[pg_dump_die_horribly.2.diff ]


In my hands, the patch complains:


In file included from gram.y:13255:0:
scan.c: In function ‘yy_try_NUL_trans’:
scan.c:16243:23: warning: unused variable ‘yyg’ [-Wunused-variable]
pg_backup_archiver.c:3320:1: error: static declaration of ‘archive_close_connection’ follows
non-static declaration
pg_backup.h:170:13: note: previous declaration of ‘archive_close_connection’ was here
make[3]: *** [pg_backup_archiver.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [all-pg_dump-recurse] Error 2
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[1]: *** [all-bin-recurse] Error 2
make: *** [all-src-recurse] Error 2
-- make returned 2 - abort



Erik Rijkers




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