Re: [HACKERS] Using Threads?

[Lamar Owen]

Matthew wrote:
>         The primary advantage that I see is that a single postgres process
> can benefit from multiple processors. I see little advantage to using thread
> for client connections.

Multiprocessors best benefit multiple backends.  And the current forked
model lends itself admirably to SMP.

And I say that even after using a multithreaded webserver (AOLserver)
for three and a half years.  Of course, AOLserver also sanely uses the
multi process PostgreSQL backends in a pooled fashion, but that's beside
the point.
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Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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