| From: | Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au> | 
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| To: | postgre(at)seznam(dot)cz | 
| Cc: | Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer(at)spamfence(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org | 
| Subject: | Re: Re: [GENERAL] postgreSQL multithreading | 
| Date: | 2008-03-30 17:25:36 | 
| Message-ID: | 47EFCD10.6080303@postnewspapers.com.au | 
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postgre(at)seznam(dot)cz wrote:
>
> What about some C dynamically loaded function in which I could call new connection for each thread?
>   
Past discussion here suggests that the backends are strictly single 
threaded. While you might be able to use multiple threads - I don't know 
- I expect you'd need to protect all SPI access by a lock that 
serialized everything anyway.
Doing it externally with a script / program that uses multiple 
connections might just be the way. Unfortunately that means that you 
don't get a single consistent snapshot - each connection will have its 
own, potentially different, view of the database state.
A possible use for read only transactions being able to share a snapshot 
came up in discussion a few weeks ago. I guess this is another one.
--
Craig Ringer
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