Thanks,
You are right, it is not what I'm doing, I'm simply calling code that works
on the binary blob using multiple threads.
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 02:51:13PM +0000, Seref Arikan wrote:
> > Thanks Bruce,
> > I too think that it should be fine, as long as I make sure that the
> spawned
> > threads do not call back to originating thread and they are properly
> terminated
> > once they're finished etc.
> > Various messages I've seen in the list archives seem to mention that
> spawning
> > threads is a bad idea, etc etc. I just could not find a technical
> discussion of
> > why this is a bad idea. Maybe I have failed to generate the correct
> search
> > terms.
> > It would be great to know why and when this would be a dangerous thing
> to do.
>
> The problem comes with calling Postgres subsystems from multiple
> threads, which it doesn't sound like you are doing.
>
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>
> + It's impossible for everything to be true. +
>
