Re: [HACKERS] fork/exec for backend

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> I am still wondering why postmaster fork/exec instead of
> just forking when receiving a new connection.
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> Fork on modern unices (linux and (a think) *BSD) cost
> almost nothing (in time and memory) thanks to COW (copy-on-write).
> Exec in expensive as it breaks COW.
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> I know this is not the time (have too wait 'til after 6.3),
> but shouldn't this be on the ToDo-list.

It was on my personal TODO. It is on the main one now:

* remove fork()/exec() of backend and make it just fork()

I had hoped to do this fir 6.3 as it will save 0.01 seconds on startup,
but no luck.

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Bruce Momjian
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