Ashutosh, * Ashutosh Bapat ([email protected]) wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 10:18 AM, Stephen Frost <[email protected]> wrote: > > For reasons which seem likely to be entirely unintentional, pg_restore > > will accept a '-1' for -j: > > > > pg_restore -j -1 > > > > This seems to result in the parallel state being NULL and so things > > don't outright break, but it hardly seems likely to be what the user was > > asking for- my guess is that they actually wanted "parallel, single > > transaction", which we don't actually support: > > > > -> pg_restore -j 2 -1 > > pg_restore: cannot specify both --single-transaction and multiple jobs > > > > We also don't accept -1 for pg_dump: > > > > -> pg_dump -j -1 > > pg_dump: invalid number of parallel jobs > > > > If I'm missing something, please let me know, otherwise I'll plan to put > > the same check into pg_restore which exists in pg_dump. > > Both the code blocks were added by 9e257a18, but I don't see any > description of why they are different in pg_dump.c and pg_restore.c.
Right. > In fact per comments in pg_restore.c, that condition should be same as > pg_dump.c. I am not sure whether it's just for windows specific > condition or the whole block. But I don't see any reason not to > replicate the same conditions in pg_restore.c I'm pretty sure that comment is about the Windows-specific check of MAXIMUM_WAIT_OBJECTS, but I don't think there's any reason to accept a zero or negative value for numWorkers. Attached patch adds the same check to pg_restore that's in pg_dump already. Looks like it should back-patch to 9.3 pretty cleanly and I'll add a similar check for 9.2. Any thoughts about adding the Windows-specific MAXIMUM_WAIT_OBJECTS check to 9.2 pg_restore..? It certainly looks entirely straight-forward to do, and though I don't recall hearing anyone complaining about trying to run pg_restore on Windows with lots of jobs and having it fall over, it might avoid a bit of frustration for anyone who does try. Thanks! Stephen
diff --git a/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_restore.c b/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_restore.c
new file mode 100644
index b21fd26..b69082d
*** a/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_restore.c
--- b/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_restore.c
*************** main(int argc, char **argv)
*** 402,407 ****
--- 402,413 ----
if (opts->tocFile)
SortTocFromFile(AH);
+ if (numWorkers <= 0)
+ {
+ fprintf(stderr, _("%s: invalid number of parallel jobs\n"), progname);
+ exit(1);
+ }
+
/* See comments in pg_dump.c */
#ifdef WIN32
if (numWorkers > MAXIMUM_WAIT_OBJECTS)
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