Re: PL/TCL Patch to prevent postgres from becoming multithreaded - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: PL/TCL Patch to prevent postgres from becoming multithreaded
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Msg-id 200709141807.l8EI7UZ04572@momjian.us
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In response to Re: PL/TCL Patch to prevent postgres from becoming multithreaded  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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OK, moved to patches list.

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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
> Gregory Stark wrote:
> > Do we have anyone actively maintaining pltcl these days? I'm intentionally
> > quite unfamiliar with Tcl or I would be happy to verify it's reasonable. But
> > the explanation seems pretty convincing. If we don't have anyone maintaining
> > it then we're pretty much at the mercy of applying whatever patches come in
> > from people who are more familiar with it than us. In my experience that's how
> > new maintainers for modules of free software are often found anyways.
> >
> >
>
> I was hoping that Jan or somebody else with some Tcl-fu would comment. I
> agree it probably shouldn't be deferred.
>
> It does bother me a bit that the Tcl engine startup just starts firing
> up threads without advertisement - I wondered if we shouldn't kick back
> and say it's their problem to fix.
>
> cheers
>
> andrew

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