Re: pg_restore dependencies

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_restore dependencies
Date: 2009-04-10 20:22:40
Message-ID: 49DFAA90.5080504@agliodbs.com
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Tom, Andrew,

>> Well, we certainly want to be able to run CREATE INDEXes in parallel,
>> so this would appear to require hard-wiring some conception of shared
>> versus exclusive lock into pg_restore. I think it might be a bit late
>> to consider that for 8.4.
>
>
> I'm pretty sure I had the logic for this correct stuff originally, so
> I'm going to go back and check that.

FWIW, I've tested 3 moderately complex databases with this, and the
locking issue happens on every one. As a result, getting more than 3
cores of scalability on any fairly complex DB isn't possible without
fixing this.

--
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
www.pgexperts.com

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