"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> It's supposed be a whole heap faster - there is no polling involved...

I looked into this more.  AFAICT, the scenario in which kqueue is
said to be faster involves watching a large number of file
descriptors simultaneously.  Since libpq is only watching one
descriptor, I don't see the benefit of adopting kqueue ...

			regards, tom lane

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