On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 16:51 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Python queues and threads would make that very simple. Master > thread reads from pg_dump pipe, passing X bytes to a queue, and each > thread performs this loop: > - read from queue > - synchronously write to /dev/stN Right, you can use threads also. You're doing synchronous writes from different threads, I was doing asynchronous writes from the same thread. It's just a matter of preference. > The disk system would have to be fast enough to keep all X tape > drives full. > The whole point of this is that pg_dump was producing output (from the disk) faster than you could store it (to the tape), right? So if you use multiple tapes and stripe with a multiplexing script, that should solve the problem right? Regards, Jeff Davis
