From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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To: | Postgresql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [pgsql-www] NuSphere and PostgreSQL for windows |
Date: | 2003-09-25 13:58:31 |
Message-ID: | 3F72F487.7060603@dunslane.net |
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Tom Lane wrote:
>BTW, I've been wondering lately if we'd not be better off to look at
>using threading in the Windows port, if it'd help us get around the
>fork/exec data transfer problem. I'm not sure that it would, mind you,
>but if it would give an answer it might be a lot less painful than
>solving the data transfer problem directly.
>
I am sure you are correct. The whole Windows API is more multi-thread
friendly than multi-process friendly, and operates far more efficiently
that way, as I understand it. There is also some potential benefit on
some *nix systems, where thread creation is far less costly than
forking, or at least this used to be the case last time I looked at it.
>
>Our main objections to threading in the past have always been lack of
>portability and loss of robustness. Portability isn't an issue for a
>Windows-only solution, and I'm not too concerned about the other either,
>since I'll never think that Windows would be a place to run a production
>server anyway.
>
>
>
Not that I like Windows all that much, but using it for a server is
becoming more defensible as an option. As for portability, what *nix is
there these days that doesn't have some sort of lightweight thread support?
Maybe the relevant parts of the system need to be abstracted out and
threading generally made a build time option (on by default for Windows,
off by default otherwise, maybe?)
cheers
andrew
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