Re: Parallel pg_restore versus old dump files

Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Another possibility is to just remove the inside-the-loop error test
>>> altogether: make it just skip till it finds the desired item, and only
>>> throw an error if it hits EOF without finding it.  In the case that
>>> the error test is trying to catch, this would mean significantly more
>>> work done before reporting the error, but do we really care?  I'm
>>> leaning to this solution because it would not require exporting state
>>> from the parallel restore control logic.
>>>       

>> Would exporting a bit of state be so bad?
>>     
>
> The threaded case seems a bit messy, and frankly I don't believe that
> we'd be buying anything.  The error case never actually occurs in the real
> world, except perhaps on corrupted archive files, so why should we care
> about performance for it?
>
>   

OK, I can buy  that.

cheers

andrew