Re: thread safety

Mendola Gaetano wrote:
> I seen on this list a lot of energy ( also little flames involving SCO
> & Co. ) spent on thread safety;
> was really necessary spent so much energy in this direction?
> I was at Fosdem in Bruxelles ( I spoke there about the use
> of postgres in my project ) and I seen al people there
> was really exicited about the anticipation of Bruce Momjian
> about the PITR in 7.4 but how we know there was no time for it
>
> May be I'm wrong but I'd like know why thread safety was so
> necessary.

The thing that slows me down the most --- trips like FOSDEM. I am doing
one every month or every other month. That takes 1/4 of each month.
The threading discussion took 1/1000 of a month, but I do several
hundred of those, so it fills up a month quickly.

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