Re: patch for parallel pg_dump

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Joachim Wieland <joe(at)mcknight(dot)de>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Subject: Re: patch for parallel pg_dump
Date: 2012-04-03 15:59:36
Message-ID: 8606.1333468776@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Possibly we could move assert.c into src/port/ and make it part of
>> libpgport?

> The trouble is that it calls write_stderr(), which has a non-trivial
> implementation on Windows that I don't believe will be suitable for
> front-end code. If we can find a reasonable way to work around that
> issue then I think that would work.

Well, if we don't have a solution to that problem then it's premature
to propose making Assert available to frontend code. So my opinion
is that that idea is too half-baked to be pushing into 9.2 at this
time. Let's put it on the to-do list instead.

regards, tom lane

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