Re: Using multiple cores for index creation?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, henk de wit <henk53602(at)hotmail(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Using multiple cores for index creation?
Date: 2009-01-30 01:25:16
Message-ID: 15052.1233278716@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 18:09 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
>> Andrew Dunstan has been working on this problem. His latest parallel
>> restore patch can be found here:
>>
>> http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/4977E070.6070604@dunslane.net

> Yeah but that isn't useful for 8.3.

Sure it is. Andrew has made a point of making sure that the improved
version of pg_restore can work against older servers (not sure how far
back, but it's definitely supposed to work with 8.3).

> What can be done in this specific
> situation is to make sure you dump with the -Fc option...

You're essentially proposing a manual reimplementation of Andrew's
patch ...

regards, tom lane

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