> If you need something like this short term, we actually found a way to do it
> ourselves for a migration we performed back in October. The secret is xargs
> with the -P option:
>
> xargs -I{} -P 8 -a table-list.txt \
> bash -c "pg_dump -Fc -t {} my_db | pg_restore -h remote -d my_db"
>
> Fill table-list.txt with as many, or as few tables as you want. The above
> example would give you 8 parallel threads. Well equipped systems may be able
> to increase this.
>
> Admittedly it's a gross hack, but it works. :)
I think you'd have to be real careful around foreign key constraints
for that to work.
Tim
