Re: PgCon: who will be there?

Hi,
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Koichi Suzuki

2010/2/12 Markus Wanner <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch>:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:21:23 +0900, Koichi Suzuki <koichi(dot)szk(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
>> 2010/2/12 Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>:
>>> Umm.. do you think that the "Export snapshots to other sessions"
> feature
>>> is
>>> completely independent of the snapshot management for the parallel
>>> pg_dump?
>>> If not, we should make the patch more extensible for the feature we
> want?
>
> I think a common, more general implementation is possible, but certainly
> requires more work than a plain parallel pg_dump solution.
>
>> I don't think so.   But in the cluster, from my experience of PG-2, it
>> is essential to manage snapshot consistent among all the node involved
>> and we should be very careful to make other local tasks, for example,
>> autovacuum and analyze, not disturb other transactions because they
>> can become global long transactions very easily.
>
> Well, I fear that's heavily dependent on the clustering solution. So I
> think the first step will be to have a general purpose snapshot exporting /
> cloning feature for a single node (i.e. usable for parallel querying).
> Extending that to allow for distributed parallel querying is the next step.

Yes, I agree that there's common feature to local and cluster use case
and cluster use case needs some more. But as you mentioned, I
believe cluster can use general purpose feature with some extension.

>
> Regards
>
> Markus Wanner
>
>