Re: Pre-forking backend

Sean Chittenden <sean-pgsql-hackers@chittenden.org>

From: sean-pgsql-hackers@chittenden.org
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-09-30T02:28:01Z
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 ...

Umm... Apache?  They use a preforking model and it works quite well for 
every *NIX that Apache runs on.  ;)  Maybe RSE can comment on this 
further... -sc

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Sean Chittenden