Re: pg_restore --multi-thread

On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 11:32 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> > The implementation is actually different across platforms: on Windows 
> > the workers are genuine threads, while elsewhere they are forked 
> > children in the same fashion as the backend (non-EXEC_BACKEND case). In 
> > either case, the program will use up to NUM concurrent connections to 
> > the server.
> 
> How about calling it --num-connections or something like that?  I agree
> with Peter that "thread" is not the best terminology on platforms where
> there is no threading involved.

--num-workers or --num-connections would both work.

Joshua D. Drake

> 
>             regards, tom lane
> 
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