Re: Is a modern build system acceptable for older platforms

On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 10:42:00PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> > We also have what seems like half an OS worth of tooling to support our
> > shared-nothing-by-default multi-processing model. Custom spinlocks, our
> > LWLocks, our latches, signal based IPC + ProcSignal signal multiplexing,
> > extension shmem reservation and allocation, DSM, DSA, longjmp based
> > exception handling and unwinding ... the learning curve for PostgreSQL
> > programming is a whole lot more than just C even before you get into the
> > DB-related bits. And there's not a great deal of help with the learning
> > curve.
> 
> A good chunk of that we'd probably have anyway. Even with threads we'd
> likely have our own spinlocks, lwlocks, latches, signal handling,
> explict shared memory (for hugepages).  I think having a decently
> performant DB will always imply a lot of "OS like" infrastructure.
> 

I think threading would definitely make server programming harder.

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