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

From Thomas Munro
Subject Re: Let's make PostgreSQL multi-threaded
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Msg-id CA+hUKGKeJNen_vy=XM8_FKWVzn1p5E+OJ+5Ezc1J-G8dKpkbpg@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Let's make PostgreSQL multi-threaded  (Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>)
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On Thu, Jun 8, 2023 at 7:20 AM Tomas Vondra
<tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> Is the platform support really there for all platforms we want/intend to
> support? I have no problem believing that for modern Linux/BSD systems,
> but what about the older stuff we currently support.

There is a conversation to be had about whether/when/how to adopt
C11/C17 threads (= same API on Windows and Unix, but sadly two
straggler systems don't have required OS support yet (macOS,
OpenBSD)), but POSIX + NT threads were all worked out in the 90s.  We
have last-mover advantage here.

> Also, which other projects did this transition? Is there something we
> could learn from them? Were they restricted to much smaller list of
> platforms?

Apache may be interesting.  Wide ecosystem of extensions.



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