> This brings up a good point. Threads are mostly useful when you have
> multiple processes that need to share lots of data, and the interprocess
> overhead is excessive. Because we already have that shared memory area,
> this benefit of threads doesn't buy us much. We sort of already have
> done the _shared_ part, and the addition of sharing our data pages is
> not much of a win.
I agree, that this is not the issue. The only issue for PostgreSQL would be to
efficiently support tenthousands of users.
Andreas
