On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Joel Jacobson <joel@trustly.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Daniel Farina <daniel@heroku.com> wrote:
>> Also, now that I look more carefully, there was a lot of conversation
>> about this patch; it seems like what you are doing now is reporting
>> its successful use, and I did not understand that by reading the
>> abstract of your email. And, beyond that, do we have a summary of the
>> open questions that prevented it from being committed?
>
> Good idea. Here is an attempt to a summary:
Thank you, that's very informative. I'd like to reiterate one
question, though, which is something like:
"How do you feel that the since-committed directory-output/input
support in pg_dump/pg_restore could or should influence your patch, if
at all?"
It seems like now that there is support for spitting out a bunch of
files in a directory for pg_dump that is now going to be supported for
a long time that a new feature like yours might be more cohesive if it
somehow played with that. I must confess I haven't read the patch in
detail, especially if it has been updated, but back then there was no
multi-file output mode from pg_dump, and now there is one. My naive
understanding is this would be adding a second one as-is, but I wonder
if that is strictly necessary to fulfill the use case.
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fdr