AW: Using Threads?

From: Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>
To: "'Bruce Momjian'" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: AW: Using Threads?
Date: 2000-12-11 10:58:57
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> This brings up a good point. Threads are mostly useful when you have
> multiple processes that need to share lots of data, and the interprocess
> overhead is excessive. Because we already have that shared memory area,
> this benefit of threads doesn't buy us much. We sort of already have
> done the _shared_ part, and the addition of sharing our data pages is
> not much of a win.

I agree, that this is not the issue. The only issue for PostgreSQL would be to
efficiently support tenthousands of users.

Andreas

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