Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar@persistent.co.in> writes:
> Considering this could be a configure time option, you mean to say
> that even on Unix we could get threaded postgresql which would not
> require any shared buffers but instead operate upon local shared
> buffers only?
Only if we were prepared to support multiple, no doubt incompatible
threading libraries, which is exactly what I wasn't volunteering us for.
> I am sure local buffers would be lot cheaper than shared buffers.
On what do you base that? It sounds like pure fantasy to me. RAM is RAM.
regards, tom lane
