Re: Let's make PostgreSQL multi-threaded - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Joe Conway
Subject Re: Let's make PostgreSQL multi-threaded
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Msg-id 6a6d5677-d26f-5222-ce11-760e2534e909@joeconway.com
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In response to Re: Let's make PostgreSQL multi-threaded  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 6/6/23 22:02, Tom Lane wrote:
> (and, I predict, more than one security-grade bug).

*That* is what worries me the most

> I agree that if we were building this system from scratch today,
> we'd probably choose thread-per-session not process-per-session.
> But the costs of getting to that from where we are will be enormous.
> I seriously doubt that the net benefits could justify that work,
> no matter how long you want to look forward.  It's not really
> significantly different from "let's rewrite the server in
> C++/Rust/$latest_hotness".

Agreed.

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Joe Conway
PostgreSQL Contributors Team
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