Re: Postgresql and multithreading

I have updated the developers FAQ item 1.9 to address this:
http://developer.postgresql.org/readtext.php?src/FAQ/FAQ_DEV.html+Developers-FAQ

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Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 01:51:28AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > 
> > Let me add one more thing on this "thread".  This is one email in a
> > long list of "Oh, gee, you aren't using that wizz-bang new
> > sync/thread/aio/raid/raw feature" discussion where someone shows up
> > and wants to know why.  Does anyone know how to address these,
> > efficiently?
> 
> If somebody pops up asks such dumb questions without even looking at the
> FAQ, it is bad, if not idiotic, because it takes useful time away from
> the developers.
> 
> But my question was not `why don't you implement this feature?`, but `do
> you have plans to implement this feature in the future?', and in the
> open source spirit of `if something is not there, go implement it
> yourself - without troubling developers' ;)
> 
> Also, I have read the section 1.9 of the developers FAQ (Why don't we
> use threads in the backend?) long, long ago.
> 
> > If we discuss it, it ends up causing a lot of effort on our part for
> > the requestor to finally say, "Oh, gee, I didn't realize that."
> 
> Please don't.  See the "NB" at end of my first mail of this thread.
> 
>     Anuradha
> 
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