On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 6:19 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> I don't see the point of the sort-by-relpages code. The order the objects
> are dumped should be irrelevant, as long as you obey the restrictions
> dictated by dependencies. Or is it only needed for the multiple-target-dirs
> feature? Frankly I don't see the point of that, so it would be good to cull
> it out at least in this first stage.
A guy called Dimitri Fontaine actually proposed the
serveral-directories feature here and other people liked the idea.
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-02/msg01061.php :-)
The code doesn't change much with or without it, and if people are no
longer in favour of it, I have no problem with taking it out.
As Dimitri has already pointed out, the relpage sorting thing is there
to start with the largest table(s) first.
Joachim
