Re: [HACKERS] backend startup

Don Baccus wrote:
> 
> At 05:50 PM 2/9/00 +1100, Chris Bitmead wrote:
> >
> >Is there any particular reason why a backend has to be started by the
> >postmaster unless it is the only backend running (in debug mode) ?
> >
> >I'm thinking here that
> >
> >(a) It would be more convenient to debug if you didn't have to shut down
> >the postmaster to run gdb postgres and...
> >
> >(b) If that were the case you be part-way to implementing a
> >single-process database option like some databases have.
> 
> I can see where (a) is true, but who really cares about (b) any
> more?  NT, BSD, or Linux on a several hundred dollar PC has no problem
> with dozens of processes...

Well there is socket overhead and extra context-switching time.