Re: Postgresql and multithreading

On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 01:25:23AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote:
> >
> > > ... what I want to know is whether multithreading is likely to get
> > > into in postgresql, say somewhere in 8.x, or even in 9.x?
> > 
> > It may be optional some day, most likely for Win32 at first, but we see
> > little value to it on most other platforms;  of course, we may be wrong.
> 
> In that case, I wonder if it is worth folking a new project to add
> threading support to the backend?  Of course, keeping in sync with the
> original would be lot of work.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mtpgsql

> And a minor question is wheter it is legal to keep the _changes_ in such
> a project GPL?

Do you mean 'relicence the forked copy'?

Gavin