Re: parallel restore

Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>   
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>     
>>> There is an unfinished TODO item here: we really ought to make it work
>>> for tar-format archives.  That's probably not hugely difficult, but
>>> I didn't look into it, and don't think we should hold up applying the
>>> existing patch for it.
>>>       
>
>   
>> Right. Were you thinking this should be done for 8.4?
>>     
>
> If you have time to look into it, sure.  Otherwise we should just put it
> on the TODO list.
>
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>   

I've had a look at this. If our tar code supported out of order 
restoration(using fseeko) I'd be done. But it doesn't, and I won't get 
that done for 8.4, if at all. I'm not sure what would be involved in 
making it work.

cheers

andrew