Re: multi-threaded pgbench - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: multi-threaded pgbench
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Msg-id 4A54D007.10709@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: multi-threaded pgbench  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: multi-threaded pgbench  (Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>   
>> I think you should have it use pthreads if available, or Windows threads 
>> there, or fork() elsewhere.
>>     
>
> Hmm, but how will you communicate stats back from the sub-processes?
> pg_restore doesn't need anything more than a success/failure result
> from its child processes, but I think pgbench will want more.
>
>   

My first reaction is to say "use a pipe."

cheers

andtrew


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