Re: Pre-forking backend

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-09-29T18:38:29Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > How hard would it be to pre-fork an extra backend
> 
> How are you going to pass the connection socket to an already-forked
> child process?  AFAIK there's no remotely portable way ...

No idea but it seemed like a nice optimization if we could do it.

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