Leon Oosterwijk wrote: > All, > > I'm working on a school project that involves genetic algorithms. We thought > it would be neat to parralelize the genetic algorithm in postgresql's query > optimiser. We used pthreads and are able to spawn threads to deal with the > query optimization, however on exit of the thread the postmaster blows up. > Before we get into details is there any obvious reason postgres doesn't like > to deal with threads?
Yes, the backend code is not thread-safe. -- 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
