Re: Pre-forking backend

Steve Wolfe <steve@iboats.com>

From: "Steve Wolfe" <steve@iboats.com>
To: "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-10-01T02:16:27Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> >
> > How hard would it be to pre-fork an extra backend for the database a
> > user just requested so if they next user asks for the same database, the
> > backend would already be started?

  Perhaps I'm missing something, but it seems to me that the cost of forking
a new backend would be pretty trivial compared to the expense of processing
anything but the most simple query.  Am I wrong in that?

steve