Re: State of Beta 2

On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 18:30, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > Fair enough. On another front then... would all this energy we are
> > talking about with pg_upgrade
> > be better spent on pg_dump/pg_dumpall/pg_restore?
>
> Well, we need to work on pg_dump too.  But I don't foresee it ever
> getting fast enough to satisfy the folks who want zero-downtime

Multi-threaded pg_dump.

"It'll choke the IO system!!!" you say?  Well, heck, get a better
IO system!!!!

Or... use fewer threads.

No, it won't eliminate down-time, but is necessary for big data-
bases.

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