Re: serverless postgresql
Jonathan Bartlett <johnnyb@eskimo.com>
From: Jonathan Bartlett <johnnyb@eskimo.com>
To: David Garamond <lists@zara.6.isreserved.com>
Cc: pgsql-general <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2004-01-15T15:36:52Z
Lists: pgsql-general
> 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? I've been under the impression that the developers were opposed to a threaded server because of the complete lack of consistency in threading behavior across platforms. However, I don't see how doing it as a multiprocess server as apposed to a multithreaded server affects embedded use - as long as it can simply be called from a library, why would a user or developer care? Jon