Re: Pre-forking backend

Ken Hirsch <kenhirsch@myself.com>

From: "Ken Hirsch" <kenhirsch@myself.com>
To: "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-09-30T16:45:57Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Doug McNaught wrote:
>
> You can pass open file descriptors across Unix domain sockets on most
> systems, which is a possible way to address the problem, but probably
> not worth it for the reasons discussed earlier.

I think that it does solve the problem.  The only drawback is that it's not
portable.  Almost all systems do support one of two methods, though.