From: | Rich Teer <richard(dot)teer(at)rite-group(dot)com> |
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To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Is PostgreSQL multi-threaded? |
Date: | 2000-05-30 02:40:28 |
Message-ID: | Pine.GSO.4.21.0005291933560.24272-100000@zen.rite-group.com |
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On Mon, 29 May 2000, Joseph Shraibman wrote:
> > Postgresql works under a multi-process model, it will take advantage
> > of multiple processors. However it not multi-threaded.
> >
> So in other words, it *is* multithreaded. It just uses heavyweight
> threads.
Thanks - but I did mean (light weight) threads, as opposed to processes.
I think the former can be more efficient than the latter - although perhaps
a bit more tricky to design well!
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