Re: pg_dump additional options for performance

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pg_dump additional options for performance
Date: 2008-07-27 23:42:24
Message-ID: 488D07E0.4020303@dunslane.net
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> Agreed but that is a problem I understand with a solution I don't. I
> am all eyes on a way to fix that. One thought I had and please, be
> gentle in response was some sort of async transaction capability. I
> know that libpq has the ability to send async queries. Is it possible
> to do this:
>
> send async(copy table to foo)
> send async(copy table to bar)
> send async(copy table to baz)
>
> Where all three copies are happening in the background?
>
>

IIRC, libpq doesn't let you have more than one async query active at one
time.

cheers

andrew

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