| From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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| To: | Peter Geoghegan <peter(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Process wakeups when idle and power consumption |
| Date: | 2011-05-11 08:54:51 |
| Message-ID: | BANLkTikWfZTJgBc1umV4M+n-x5ig6f8Bzg@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:52, Peter Geoghegan <peter(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On 9 May 2011 11:19, Heikki Linnakangas
> <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> In the child, spawn a thread
>
> How exactly should I go about this? The one place in the code that I
> knew to use multiple threads, pgbench, falls back on "emulation with
> fork()" on some platforms.
If you're doing this Win32 specific, take a look at
src/backend/port/win32/signal.c for an example.
If you're not doing this win32-specific, I doubt we really want
threads to be involved...
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Magnus Hagander
Me: http://www.hagander.net/
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