Re: Let's make PostgreSQL multi-threaded

Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-06-07T21:39:01Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 07.06.23 23:30, Andres Freund wrote:
> Yea, we definitely need the supervisor function in a separate
> process. Presumably that means we need to split off some of the postmaster
> responsibilities - e.g. I don't think it'd make sense to handle connection
> establishment in the supervisor process. I wonder if this is something that
> could end up being beneficial even in the process world.

Something to think about perhaps ... how would that be different from 
using an existing external supervisor process like systemd or supervisord.