Re: Reasoning behind process instead of thread based

From: nd02tsk(at)student(dot)hig(dot)se
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Reasoning behind process instead of thread based
Date: 2004-10-27 17:47:03
Message-ID: 4194.130.243.12.138.1098899223.squirrel@130.243.12.138
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>Two: If a
> single process in a multi-process application crashes, that process
> alone dies. The buffer is flushed, and all the other child processes
> continue happily along. In a multi-threaded environment, when one
> thread dies, they all die.

So this means that if a single connection thread dies in MySQL, all
connections die?

Seems rather serious. I am doubtful that is how they have implemented it.

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