| From: | Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at> |
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| To: | "'Bruce Momjian'" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | AW: Using Threads? |
| Date: | 2000-12-11 10:58:57 |
| Message-ID: | 11C1E6749A55D411A9670001FA68796336816F@sdexcsrv1.f000.d0188.sd.spardat.at |
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> This brings up a good point. Threads are mostly useful when you have
> multiple processes that need to share lots of data, and the interprocess
> overhead is excessive. Because we already have that shared memory area,
> this benefit of threads doesn't buy us much. We sort of already have
> done the _shared_ part, and the addition of sharing our data pages is
> not much of a win.
I agree, that this is not the issue. The only issue for PostgreSQL would be to
efficiently support tenthousands of users.
Andreas
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