Re: [HACKERS] Re: [QUESTIONS] Does Storage Manager support >2GB tables?

> Yes, the threading topic has come up before, and I have never considered
> it a big win.  We want to remove the exec() from the startup, so we just
> do a fork.  Will save 0.001 seconds of startup.
> 
> That is a very easy win for us.  I hadn't considered the synchonization
> problems with palloc/pfree, and that could be a real problem.

I was wrong here.  Removing exec() will save 0.01 seconds, not 0.001
seconds.  Typical backend startup and a single query is 0.08 seconds. 
Removal of exec() will take this down to 0.07 seconds.

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