Re: pg_migrator and an 8.3-compatible tsvector data type

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Greg Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>, Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>
Subject: Re: pg_migrator and an 8.3-compatible tsvector data type
Date: 2009-05-29 01:25:46
Message-ID: 4A1F399A.8010609@dunslane.net
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
>> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>
>
>
>>> Why not? Right now it's single-threaded. Would it be faster if it ran
>>> several copies in parallel?
>>>
>> Sure, but that assumes you have parallel I/O channels; I assume right
>> now it is I/O limited.
>>
>
> But so does parallel pg_restore, no?
>
>

Well, no, it assumes you're not saturating your I/O bandwidth, which
turns out to be the case more often than you might expect, even without
multiple I/O channels.

cheers

andrew

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