| From: | Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Nico Williams <nico(at)cryptonector(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: fork()-safety, thread-safety |
| Date: | 2017-10-06 01:19:54 |
| Message-ID: | CAMsr+YHYJo9dNXYEhB_KycBzNWCS8CtUr2nu+pyPDZ0S4GJHvQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On 6 October 2017 at 08:06, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> On 2017-10-06 07:59:40 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
>> The only thing that gets me excited about a threaded postgres is the
>> ability to have a PL/Java, PL/Mono etc that don't suck. We could do
>> some really cool things that just aren't practical right now.
>
> Faster parallelism with a lot less reinventing the wheel. Easier backend
> / session separation. Shared caches.
Yeah. We have a pretty major NIH problem in PostgreSQL, and I agree
that adopting threading and some commonplace tools would sure help us
reduce that burden a bit.
I would really miss shared-nothing-by-default though.
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Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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