Re: [GENERAL] Multi-threading on PostgreSQL?

1999-07-15 Thread Chris Bitmead
I think you are missing something. Threads and processes, to a great extent are 6 of one and half a dozen of the other. Postgres uses multiple processes accessing a shared memory area. A multithreaded database would use multiple threads accessing a shared memory area. In most OSes, threads and

Re: [GENERAL] Multi-threading on PostgreSQL?

1999-07-15 Thread Bruce Momjian
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] Hi, I am really impressed with the features of PostgreSQL but am wondering if we should use this product for our project. We have tried several databases (MySQL, Sybase ASE, Sybase ASA) and we are now looking at PostgreSQL before

RE: [GENERAL] Multi-threading on PostgreSQL?

1999-07-15 Thread Tiago Hermans
My concern comes from the fact that there's no multi-threading support in PostgreSQL and since we expect many customers to be connected at the same time on multiple connections, I am afraid the time to perform the SQL statements will be much longer, since they'll all be queued one