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

Amit Kapila wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 8:51 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.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.

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