Re: fork()-safety, thread-safety

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Nico Williams <nico(at)cryptonector(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: fork()-safety, thread-safety
Date: 2017-10-06 00:06:55
Message-ID: 20171006000655.gc4dmp25sawz6ed2@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2017-10-06 07:59:40 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> The only thing that gets me excited about a threaded postgres is the
> ability to have a PL/Java, PL/Mono etc that don't suck. We could do
> some really cool things that just aren't practical right now.

Faster parallelism with a lot less reinventing the wheel. Easier backend
/ session separation. Shared caches.

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