Shridhar Daithankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Considering this could be a configure time option, you mean to say > that even on Unix we could get threaded postgresql which would not > require any shared buffers but instead operate upon local shared > buffers only?
Only if we were prepared to support multiple, no doubt incompatible threading libraries, which is exactly what I wasn't volunteering us for. > I am sure local buffers would be lot cheaper than shared buffers. On what do you base that? It sounds like pure fantasy to me. RAM is RAM. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings