Re: Postgresql and multithreading

From: Anuradha Ratnaweera <anuradha(at)lklug(dot)pdn(dot)ac(dot)lk>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, anuradha(at)gnu(dot)org
Subject: Re: Postgresql and multithreading
Date: 2002-10-16 05:21:22
Message-ID: 20021016052122.GA32633@lklug.pdn.ac.lk
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 12:59:57AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote:
> >
> > Is there any plans to make postgresql multithreading?
>
> We don't think it is needed, except perhaps for Win32 and Solaris, which
> have slow process creation times.

Thanks, Bruce. But what I want to know is whether multithreading is
likely to get into in postgresql, say somewhere in 8.x, or even in 9.x?
(as they did with Apache). Are there any plans to do so, or is postgres
going to remain rather a multi-process application?

Anuradha

--

Debian GNU/Linux (kernel 2.4.18-xfs-1.1)

One nice thing about egotists: they don't talk about other people.

In response to

Responses

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Bruce Momjian 2002-10-16 05:23:44 Re: droped out precise time calculations in src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c
Previous Message Joe Conway 2002-10-16 05:15:27 Re: droped out precise time calculations in src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c