Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 12:59:57AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote: > > > > > > Is there any plans to make postgresql multithreading? > > > > We don't think it is needed, except perhaps for Win32 and Solaris, which > > have slow process creation times. > > Thanks, Bruce. But what I want to know is whether multithreading is > likely to get into in postgresql, say somewhere in 8.x, or even in 9.x? > (as they did with Apache). Are there any plans to do so, or is postgres > going to remain rather a multi-process application?
It may be optional some day, most likely for Win32 at first, but we see little value to it on most other platforms; of course, we may be wrong. I am also not sure if it is a big win on Apache either; I think the jury is still out on that one, hence the slow adoption of 2.X, and we don't want to add threads and make a mess of the code or slow it down, which does often happen. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
