Re: Postgresql and multithreading

Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 12:59:57AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote:
> > > 
> > > Is there any plans to make postgresql multithreading?
> > 
> > We don't think it is needed, except perhaps for Win32 and Solaris, which
> > have slow process creation times.
> 
> Thanks, Bruce.  But what I want to know is whether multithreading is
> likely to get into in postgresql, say somewhere in 8.x, or even in 9.x?
> (as they did with Apache).  Are there any plans to do so, or is postgres
> going to remain rather a multi-process application?

It may be optional some day, most likely for Win32 at first, but we see
little value to it on most other platforms;  of course, we may be wrong.
I am also not sure if it is a big win on Apache either;  I think the
jury is still out on that one, hence the slow adoption of 2.X, and we
don't want to add threads and make a mess of the code or slow it down,
which does often happen.

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