>
> On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Junfeng Zhang wrote:
>
> > All the major operating systems should have POSIX threads implemented.
> > Actually this can be configurable--multithreads or one thread.
>
> I don't understand this. The OS can be configured for one thread? How
> would that be any of use?
>
> > Thread-only server is unsafe, I agree. Maybe the following model can be a
> > little better. Several servers, each is multi-threaded. Every server can
> > support a maximum number of requests simultaneously. If anything bad
> > happends, it is limited to that server.
>
> There is no difference. If anything bad happens with the current
> multi-process server, all the postgres backends shutdown because the
> shared memory may be corrupted.
Yes. Are we adding reliability with per-process backends. I think so
because things are less likely to go haywire, and we are more likely to
be able to clean things up in a failure.
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