Re: [HACKERS] Re: [PATCHES] Try again: S_LOCK reduced contentionh]

From: Brett McCormick <brett(at)work(dot)chicken(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: [PATCHES] Try again: S_LOCK reduced contentionh]
Date: 1998-05-11 15:32:16
Message-ID: 13655.5907.63936.580899@abraxas.scene.com
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On Mon, 11 May 1998, at 11:14:43, Tom Lane wrote:

> Brett McCormick <brett(at)work(dot)chicken(dot)org> writes:
> > same way that the current network socket is passed -- through an execv
> > argument. hopefully, however, the non-execv()ing fork will be in 6.4.
>
> Um, you missed the point, Brett. David was hoping to transfer a client
> connection from the postmaster to an *already existing* backend process.
> Fork, with or without exec, solves the problem for a backend that's
> started after the postmaster has accepted the client socket.

That's what I get for jumping in on a thread I wasn't paying much
attention to begin with.

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