Re: Let's make PostgreSQL multi-threaded

Hannu Krosing <hannuk@google.com>

From: Hannu Krosing <hannuk@google.com>
To: Thomas Kellerer <shammat@gmx.net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2023-06-08T09:56:37Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
I think I remember that in the early days of development somebody did
send a patch-set for making PostgreSQL threaded on Solaris.

I don't remember why this did not catch on.

On Wed, Jun 7, 2023 at 11:40 PM Thomas Kellerer <shammat@gmx.net> wrote:
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> Tomas Vondra schrieb am 07.06.2023 um 21:20:
> > Also, which other projects did this transition? Is there something we
> > could learn from them? Were they restricted to much smaller list of
> > platforms?
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> Firebird did this a while ago if I'm not mistaken.
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> Not open source, but Oracle was historically multi-threaded on Windows and multi-process on all other platforms.
> I _think_ starting with 19c you can optionally run it multi-threaded on Linux as well.
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> But I doubt, they are willing to share any insights ;)
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