Re: Option to dump foreign data in pg_dump

From: David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>
To: Luis Carril <luis(dot)carril(at)swarm64(dot)com>, vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Option to dump foreign data in pg_dump
Date: 2020-03-03 19:11:41
Message-ID: 8b1efca1-129d-60dc-7e4c-e7c11aae1e94@pgmasters.net
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Hi Luis,

On 1/29/20 11:05 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 2020-01-21 10:36, Luis Carril wrote:
>>> Yes we can support --include-foreign-data without parallel option and
>>> later add support for parallel option as a different patch.
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>      I've attached a new version of the patch in which an error is
>> emitted if the parallel backup is used with the --include-foreign-data
>> option.
>
> This seems like an overreaction.  The whole point of
> lockTableForWorker() is to avoid deadlocks, but foreign tables don't
> have locks, so it's not a problem.  I think you can just skip foreign
> tables in lockTableForWorker() using the same logic that getTables() uses.
>
> I think parallel data dump would be an especially interesting option
> when using foreign tables, so it's worth figuring this out.

What do you think of Peter's comment?

Regards,
--
-David
david(at)pgmasters(dot)net

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