I discovered this thread from a Twitter post "PostgreSQL will finally be rewritten in Rust" :)
On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 5:18 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > Heikki Linnakangas <hlinn...@iki.fi> writes: > > I spoke with some folks at PGCon about making PostgreSQL multi-threaded, > > so that the whole server runs in a single process, with multiple > > threads. It has been discussed many times in the past, last thread on > > pgsql-hackers was back in 2017 when Konstantin made some experiments [0]. > > > I feel that there is now pretty strong consensus that it would be a good > > thing, more so than before. Lots of work to get there, and lots of > > details to be hashed out, but no objections to the idea at a high level. > > > The purpose of this email is to make that silent consensus explicit. If > > you have objections to switching from the current multi-process > > architecture to a single-process, multi-threaded architecture, please > > speak up. > > For the record, I think this will be a disaster. There is far too much > code that will get broken, largely silently, and much of it is not > under our control. > > regards, tom lane > >
