Re: Shared memory

Tom Lane wrote:
> Thomas Hallgren <thomas@tada.se> writes:
>   
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>     
>>> It's only that much difference?  Given all the other advantages of
>>> separating the JVM from the backends, I'd say you should gladly pay
>>> that price.
>>>
>>>       
>> If I'm right, and the most common scenario is clients using connection pools, then it's very 
>> likely that you don't get any advantages at all. Paying for nothing with a 440% increase in 
>> calling time (at best) seems expensive :-)
>>     
>
> You are focused too narrowly on a few performance numbers.  In my mind
> the primary advantage is that it will *work*.  I do not actually believe
> that you'll ever get the embedded-JVM approach to production-grade
> reliability, because of the fundamental problems with threading, error
> processing, etc.
>   
My focus with PL/Java over the last year has been to make it a 
production-grade product and I think I've succeeded pretty well. The 
current list of open bugs is second to none. What fundamental problems 
are you thinking of that hasn't been solved already?

Regards,
Thomas Hallgren