Re: Transaction Snapshot Cloning

bruce@momjian.us (Bruce Momjian) writes:
> Added to TODO:
>
> * Allow one transaction to see tuples using the snapshot of another
>   transaction
>
>   This would assist multiple backends in working together.
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-01/msg00400.php

FYI, code for this is presently available on pgFoundry, at:  <http://pgfoundry.org/projects/snapclone/>.

I have some benchmarking scripts to commit to it, once I get added to
the project. (Simon?  :-))

FYI, preliminary testing, on a machine hooked up to an EMC CX700 disk
array is showing that, if I do concurrent dumps of 4 tables, it gives
a bit better than a 2x speedup over dumping the four tables serially,
so there's definitely some fruit here.
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