| From: | Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com> |
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| To: | chris(at)bitmead(dot)com, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] backend startup |
| Date: | 2000-02-09 15:54:27 |
| Message-ID: | 3.0.1.32.20000209075427.0109c140@mail.pacifier.com |
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At 05:50 PM 2/9/00 +1100, Chris Bitmead wrote:
>
>Is there any particular reason why a backend has to be started by the
>postmaster unless it is the only backend running (in debug mode) ?
>
>I'm thinking here that
>
>(a) It would be more convenient to debug if you didn't have to shut down
>the postmaster to run gdb postgres and...
>
>(b) If that were the case you be part-way to implementing a
>single-process database option like some databases have.
I can see where (a) is true, but who really cares about (b) any
more? NT, BSD, or Linux on a several hundred dollar PC has no problem
with dozens of processes...
- Don Baccus, Portland OR <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
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