Re: Triggers, Stored Procedures, PHP. was: Re: PostgreSQL

Randolf Richardson wrote:
>>>In dealing with web applications and frontends to database or
>>>even just a dynamic web site PHP has every bit the power and ability that
>>>Java does and the development time is way down.
>>
>>Uh, how about threads. I know that you don't need them much but it sure
>>would be nice to be able to do background processing.
>
> [sNip]
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> PHP doesn't support threads?

Nope...

I've always thought of Forking as
> overkill where threads are light and elegant.
>

Depends on your environment... Forking in Linux is fairly lightweight.

Joshua D. Drake

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