Re: TODO : Allow parallel cores to be used by vacuumdb [ WIP ]

From: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Dilip kumar <dilip(dot)kumar(at)huawei(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Jan Lentfer <Jan(dot)Lentfer(at)web(dot)de>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Sawada Masahiko <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>, Euler Taveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com(dot)br>
Subject: Re: TODO : Allow parallel cores to be used by vacuumdb [ WIP ]
Date: 2015-01-22 03:02:55
Message-ID: CAA4eK1LtTqJvrNV2wEhG0+r2mrLvx9664oXcF0vv-X4QSRiaRw@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 8:22 AM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
wrote:
>
> Amit Kapila wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 8:51 PM, Alvaro Herrera <
alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > I didn't understand the coding in GetQueryResult(); why do we check
the
> > > result status of the last returned result only? It seems simpler to
me
> > > to check it inside the loop, but maybe there's a reason you didn't do
it
> > > like that?
> > >
> > > Also, what is the reason we were ignoring those errors only in
> > > "completedb" mode? It doesn't seem like it would cause any harm if we
> > > did it in all cases. That means we can just not have the "completeDb"
> > > flag at all.
> >
> > IIRC it is done to match the existing behaviour where such errors are
> > ignored we use this utility to vacuum database.
>
> I think that's fine, but we should do it always, not just in
> whole-database mode.
>
> I've been hacking this patch today BTW; hope to have something to show
> tomorrow.
>

Great!

With Regards,
Amit Kapila.
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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