Re: patch for parallel pg_dump

Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mar abr 03 12:38:20 -0300 2012:
>
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Joachim Wieland <joe@mcknight.de> wrote:
> >> I completely agree. Assertions helped a lot dealing with concurrent
> >> code. How do you want to tackle this for now? Want me to create a
> >> separate header pg_assert.h as part of my patch? Or is it okay to
> >> factor it out later and include it from the general header then?
>
> > I'll just go do it, barring objections.
>
> If the necessary support code isn't going to be available *everywhere*,
> it should not be in postgres.h.  So I did not care for your proposal to
> put it in dumputils.
>
> Possibly we could move assert.c into src/port/ and make it part of
> libpgport?

That only leaves assert_enabled to be handled.  In the backend it lives
in guc.c; what to do about frontend code?

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