Re: patch for parallel pg_dump

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <adunstan(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Joachim Wieland <joe(at)mcknight(dot)de>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: patch for parallel pg_dump
Date: 2012-03-14 20:56:37
Message-ID: 1331758470-sup-1260@alvh.no-ip.org
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Excerpts from Andrew Dunstan's message of mié mar 14 17:39:59 -0300 2012:

> pgpipe used to be used in pgstat.c, but that's no longer true in any
> live branch, so it's probably long dead. I'd be inclined to rip it out
> if possible rather than expand its use.

our pgpipe() function is interesting -- all the callers that use it
first verify that they aren't WIN32. If they are, they are using a
#define that makes it plain pipe(). And the function is only defined in
WIN32. It seems a reasonable idea to kill both pgpipe() and piperead().

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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
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