chris <cbbrowne@ca.afilias.info> writes:
> Do we need to wait until a fully-parallelizing pg_restore is
> implemented before adding this functionality to pg_dump?
They're independent problems ... and I would venture that parallel
dump is harder.
> Further, it's actually not obvious that we *necessarily* care about
> parallelizing loading data. The thing that happens every day is
> backups.
Maybe so, but I would say that routine backups shouldn't be designed
to eat 100% of your disk bandwidth anyway --- they'd be more like
background tasks.
regards, tom lane