Re: postmaster process and multithreading - Mailing list pgsql-interfaces

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: postmaster process and multithreading
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Msg-id 25476.1196291292@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to postmaster process and multithreading  (andrew klassen <aptklassen@yahoo.com>)
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andrew klassen <aptklassen@yahoo.com> writes:
> The reason I am asking is because sometimes the postmaster
> will create a core dump and it will show two threads but the
> backtrace on both threads does not show any helpful information.

Are you using plperl or pltcl?  The backend shouldn't go multithreaded,
but we've seen problems with those interpreters causing it to happen.
(I suppose other language interpreters like python might be risks as
well, but those two are the only ones trouble has been reported with.)
        regards, tom lane


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