| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>, Sailesh Krishnamurthy <sailesh(at)cs(dot)berkeley(dot)edu>, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: APR 1.0 released |
| Date: | 2004-10-08 15:56:27 |
| Message-ID: | 200410081556.i98FuRI09648@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Neil Conway wrote:
> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > Do we have 'make backend thread safe' listed yet? As I recall it, until
> > that gets done, parallelization of anything was considered to be a
> > relatively onerous task, no?
>
> ISTM there's no reason we couldn't parallelize query execution using the
> same IPC techniques that we use now. What would be the advantage of
> using threads instead?
Separate processes. Yes, we could do that too and the item mentions that.
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