Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > I think fixing single user mode to work halfway reasonable is enough > justification for the feature. Having to deal with that when solving > critical issues is just embarassing.
+1 > But: I very, very much agree with the other concerns around this. This > should be a patch to fix single user mode, not one to make postgres into > a single process database. It's not, and trying to make it by using > single user mode for it will start to hinder development of normal > postgres because we suddenly need to be concerned about performance and > features in situations where we previously weren't. +1 Maybe what needs to happen to this patch is away to restrict its usage to --single. I'm thinking that postgres --single maybe could be made to fork the server process underneath the psql controler client process transparently. Regards, -- Dimitri Fontaine http://2ndQuadrant.fr PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
