Re: [pgsql-www] NuSphere and PostgreSQL for windows

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar(at)persistent(dot)co(dot)in>
Cc: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] NuSphere and PostgreSQL for windows
Date: 2003-09-25 14:01:50
Message-ID: 2683.1064498510@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar(at)persistent(dot)co(dot)in> writes:
> Considering this could be a configure time option, you mean to say
> that even on Unix we could get threaded postgresql which would not
> require any shared buffers but instead operate upon local shared
> buffers only?

Only if we were prepared to support multiple, no doubt incompatible
threading libraries, which is exactly what I wasn't volunteering us for.

> I am sure local buffers would be lot cheaper than shared buffers.

On what do you base that? It sounds like pure fantasy to me. RAM is RAM.

regards, tom lane

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