Re: APR 1.0 released - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: APR 1.0 released
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Msg-id 200410081556.i98FuRI09648@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: APR 1.0 released  (Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>)
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Neil Conway wrote:
> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > Do we have 'make backend thread safe' listed yet?  As I recall it, until 
> > that gets done, parallelization of anything was considered to be a 
> > relatively onerous task, no?
> 
> ISTM there's no reason we couldn't parallelize query execution using the 
> same IPC techniques that we use now. What would be the advantage of 
> using threads instead?

Separate processes.  Yes, we could do that too and the item mentions that.

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