Re: Pre-forking backend

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Pre-forking backend
Date: 2001-09-29 18:38:29
Message-ID: 200109291838.f8TIcTQ00361@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > How hard would it be to pre-fork an extra backend
>
> How are you going to pass the connection socket to an already-forked
> child process? AFAIK there's no remotely portable way ...

No idea but it seemed like a nice optimization if we could do it.

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