On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Tom Lane<t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> writes:
>> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>> I was just wondering idly today if we could usefully build a number of
>>> indexes at the same time in a single pass over the heap, or could it be
>>> that we wouldn't gain much? I haven't even got around to thinking about
>>> any syntax for it.
>
>> Could we make it work on two backends building one index each in
>> synchronized scans?
>
> Don't we more or less have that already?

Wasn't that a big part of the point of the "parallel pg_restore" feature?

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