Re: serverless postgresql
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: David Garamond <lists@zara.6.isreserved.com>
Cc: pgsql-general <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2004-01-15T21:21:19Z
Lists: pgsql-general
David Garamond <lists@zara.6.isreserved.com> writes: > Do the developers generally oppose the idea of a threaded (but > non-embedded) backend as well? If the backend is thread-safe, then users > can still choose to run multiprocess or multithreaded right? The backend isn't thread-safe. There have been repeated discussions about using threading in the backend (see the pgsql-hackers archives), but so far no one has made a convincing case for it. BTW, this whole discussion is getting pretty off-topic for -general; I'd suggest pursuing it on -hackers. regards, tom lane