Re: Threaded PosgreSQL server

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Haroldo Stenger <hstenger(at)adinet(dot)com(dot)uy>, Doug McNaught <doug(at)wireboard(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Threaded PosgreSQL server
Date: 2002-02-06 22:05:35
Message-ID: 20020206180354.B57607-100000@earth.hub.org
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On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> Haroldo Stenger writes:
>
> > Though, starting to think & code thread safe would be nice too.
>
> The thing about thread-safeness is that it's only actually useful when
> you're using threads. Otherwise it wastes everybody's time -- the
> programmer's, the computer's, and the user's.

The thing is, there are several areas where using threads would be a
benefit, from what I've read on this list over the years ... as time goes
on, less and less of the OSs in use dont' have threads, so we have to
start *somewhere* to work towards that sort of hybrid system ...

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