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From: Nathan Bossart <[email protected]>
To: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Inefficiency in parallel pg_restore with many tables
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2023 16:28:15 -0700
Message-ID: <20230722232815.GB2020225@nathanxps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230722231941.GA2020225@nathanxps13>
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On Sat, Jul 22, 2023 at 04:19:41PM -0700, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> In v3, I moved the Datum definitions to c.h.  I first tried modifying
> binaryheap to use "int" or "void *" instead, but that ended up requiring
> some rather invasive changes in backend code, not to mention any extensions
> that happen to be using it.  I also looked into moving the definitions to a
> separate datumdefs.h header that postgres.h would include, but that felt
> awkward because 1) postgres.h clearly states that it is intended for things
> "that never escape the backend" and 2) the definitions seem relatively
> inexpensive.  However, I think the latter option is still viable, so I'm
> fine with switching to it if folks think that is a better approach.

BTW we might be able to replace the open-coded heap in pg_dump_sort.c
(added by 79273cc) with a binaryheap, too.

-- 
Nathan Bossart
Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com






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