-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> This is where a multi-threaded pg_tapedump would be more effective, >> since it would be able to, for example, have 4 threads reading >> (different parts of) the database and writing to 4 separate tape drives. > > It will be difficult to have a consistent dump though. You can't do > that with separate transactions. (And you can't have multiple > simultaneous readers without separate transactions.) Absolutely, you're right. All "threads" must run from within the same read-only transaction. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE17ZrS9HxQb37XmcRAitSAKCo1/HaJ8ZsoGYFgGo2sHezWmqqWACbB9Mr Hw4Xaalah+ZqExMwr4vu058= =e33c -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
