Re: serverless postgresql

David Garamond <lists@zara.6.isreserved.com>

From: David Garamond <lists@zara.6.isreserved.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2004-01-15T06:18:43Z
Lists: pgsql-general
Tom Lane wrote:
> Jeff Bowden <jlb@houseofdistraction.com> writes:
> 
>>That makes sense to me.  I wonder if sqlite suffers for this problem 
>>(e.g. app crashing and corrupting the database).
> 
> Likely.  I can tell you that Ann Harrison once told me she made a decent
> amount of money as a consultant fixing broken Interbase/Firebird
> database files.  It would be hard to make a living in the same game for
> Postgres.  Now I don't think that Firebird is any buggier than Postgres.
> But it comes in an embedded-library form; I'll bet lunch that most of
> those data corruption problems were actually induced by crashes of
> surrounding applications.

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?

-- 
dave