Re: parallel pg_restore

Simon Riggs wrote:
>> I will not argue vehemently here but I will say that "jobs" doesn't
>> seem correct. The term "workers" seems more appropriate.
>>     
>
> Agreed, but most utilities have "j" free but not w, p, t or other
> letters that might be synonyms.
>
> j is at least used for exactly this purpose in other tools.
>
>   

There are in fact very few letters available, as we've been fairly 
profligate in our use of option letters in the pg_dump suite.

j and m happen to be two of those that are available.

I honestly don't have a terribly strong opinion about what it should be 
called. I can live with jobs or multi-threads.

cheers

andrew