Re: Issues tangential to win32 support

From: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>
To: mlw <markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>
Cc: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Issues tangential to win32 support
Date: 2002-05-09 19:06:48
Message-ID: 1020971215.2080.30.camel@rh72.home.ee
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On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 22:36, mlw wrote:
> Scott Marlowe wrote:
> > note
> > that many Unixes prefer multi-threaded models as well (Solaris comes to
> > mind) so there's the possibility that a multi-threaded postgresql could
> > enjoy better performance on more than just windows.
>
> The isolation of a process is very important to reliable operation. Going
> threaded usually means allowing a single connection to bring down the whole
> server.

AFAIK we do that already in forked model - any time postmaster thinks
that a dying child has corrupted shared memory it kills all its
children.

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Hannu

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