Re: Let's make PostgreSQL multi-threaded
Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp>
From: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp>
To: andrew@dunslane.net
Cc: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us, hlinnaka@iki.fi, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2023-06-06T01:30:05Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
>> For the record, I think this will be a disaster. There is far too >> much >> code that will get broken, largely silently, and much of it is not >> under our control. >> >> > > > If we were starting out today we would probably choose a threaded > implementation. But moving to threaded now seems to me like a > multi-year-multi-person project with the prospect of years to come > chasing bugs and the prospect of fairly modest advantages. The risk to > reward doesn't look great. +1. Long time ago (PostgreSQL 7 days) I modified PostgreSQL to threaded implementation so that it runs on Windows because there's was no Windows port of PostgreSQL at that time. I don't remember the details but it was desperately hard for me. Best reagards, -- Tatsuo Ishii SRA OSS LLC English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en/ Japanese:http://www.sraoss.co.jp