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Re: PostgreSQL pre-fork speedup

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From: sdv mailer <sdvmailer@yahoo.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Rod Taylor <pg@rbt.ca>, Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@ihs.com>, steve@blighty.com, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2004-05-06T18:40:57Z
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Tom,

You're correct about the test measuring a hot backend
and not forking. How much exactly is the "bulk of the
startup" done by cache initialization relative to the
forking? What would be the impact on Win32 knowing
that process creation is twice as slow than on Linux? 




	
		
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