Re: WIP patch for parallel pg_dump

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> Yeah. I'm still not convinced that using shared memory is a bad way to 
> pass these around. Surely we're not talking about large numbers of them. 
> What am I missing here?

They're not of a very predictable size.

Robert's idea of publish() returning a temp file identifier, which then
gets removed at transaction end, might work all right.
        regards, tom lane