Re: TODO : Allow parallel cores to be used by vacuumdb [ WIP ] - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: TODO : Allow parallel cores to be used by vacuumdb [ WIP ]
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Msg-id 20150723172656.GT5596@postgresql.org
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In response to Re: TODO : Allow parallel cores to be used by vacuumdb [ WIP ]  (Laurent Laborde <kerdezixe@gmail.com>)
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Laurent Laborde wrote:

> Friendly greetings !
> 
> What's the status of parallel clusterdb please ?
> I'm having fun (and troubles) applying the vacuumdb patch to clusterdb.
> 
> This thread also talk about unifying code for parallelizing clusterdb and
> reindex.
> Was anything done about it ? Because i can't see it and my work currently
> involve a lot of copy/pasting from vacuumdb to clusterdb :)

Honestly, I have to wonder whether there are really valid use cases for
clusterdb.  Are you actually using it and want to see it improved, or is
this just an academical exercise?

> And no, (i'm pretty sure) i don't have the required postgresql knowledge to
> do this unification if it isn't done already.

You may or may not lack it *now*, but that doesn't mean you will
continue to lack it forever.

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Álvaro Herrera                http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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