Re: PL/TCL Patch to prevent postgres from becoming multithreaded

From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>
To: "Marshall, Steve" <smarshall(at)wsi(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PL/TCL Patch to prevent postgres from becoming multithreaded
Date: 2007-09-25 18:22:13
Message-ID: 46F951D5.2080603@kaltenbrunner.cc
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Marshall, Steve wrote:
> I'm glad to see the patch making its way through the process. I'm also
> glad you guys do comprehensive testing before accepting it, since we are
> only able to test in a more limited range of environments.
>
> We have applied the patch to our 8.2.4 installations and are running it
> in a high transaction rate system (processing lots and lots of
> continually changing weather data). Let me know if there is any
> information we could provide that would be of help in making the
> back-patching decision.

I have re-enabled tcl builds(for -HEAD) on lionfish (mipsel) and quagga
(arm) a few days ago so we should get a bit of additional coverage from
boxes that definitly had problems with the tcl-threading behaviour.

Stefan

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