From: | Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp> |
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To: | andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net |
Cc: | tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us, hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Let's make PostgreSQL multi-threaded |
Date: | 2023-06-06 01:30:05 |
Message-ID: | 20230606.103005.1460825148194820240.t-ishii@sranhm.sra.co.jp |
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>> For the record, I think this will be a disaster. There is far too
>> much
>> code that will get broken, largely silently, and much of it is not
>> under our control.
>>
>>
>
>
> If we were starting out today we would probably choose a threaded
> implementation. But moving to threaded now seems to me like a
> multi-year-multi-person project with the prospect of years to come
> chasing bugs and the prospect of fairly modest advantages. The risk to
> reward doesn't look great.
+1.
Long time ago (PostgreSQL 7 days) I modified PostgreSQL to threaded
implementation so that it runs on Windows because there's was no
Windows port of PostgreSQL at that time. I don't remember the details
but it was desperately hard for me.
Best reagards,
--
Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS LLC
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Japanese:http://www.sraoss.co.jp
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