Re: multi-threaded pgbench

Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> wrote:

> That second code path, when --enable-thread-safety is turned off, crashes
> and burns on my Linux system:

It comes from confliction of identifiers.
Renaming identifiers with #define can solve the errors:

#define pthread_t pg_pthread_t
#define pthread_attr_t pg_pthread_attr_t
#define pthread_create pg_pthread_create
#define pthread_join pg_pthread_join
typedef struct fork_pthread *pthread_t;
...

Another idea is that we don't use pthread and add 'pg_thread' wrapper
module on the top of pthread.

We can choose either of implementations... Which is better?

> $ ./pgbench -j 16 -S -c 24 -t 10000 pgbench
> number of clients (24) must be a multiple number of threads (16)

It's hard on forking-thread platforms because multiple threads need
to access the job queue. We need to put the queue on inter-process
shared memory, but it introduces additional complexities.

Regards,
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ITAGAKI Takahiro
NTT Open Source Software Center