| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Joshua Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Subject: | Re: parallel pg_restore |
| Date: | 2008-09-22 19:05:51 |
| Message-ID: | 48D7EC8F.1000106@dunslane.net |
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Simon Riggs wrote:
>> I will not argue vehemently here but I will say that "jobs" doesn't
>> seem correct. The term "workers" seems more appropriate.
>>
>
> Agreed, but most utilities have "j" free but not w, p, t or other
> letters that might be synonyms.
>
> j is at least used for exactly this purpose in other tools.
>
>
There are in fact very few letters available, as we've been fairly
profligate in our use of option letters in the pg_dump suite.
j and m happen to be two of those that are available.
I honestly don't have a terribly strong opinion about what it should be
called. I can live with jobs or multi-threads.
cheers
andrew
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