Re: Postgres with pthread

Yes, proc array lock easily becomes a bottleneck on multicore machine with large number of connections.  Related to this, another patch helping to large number of connections is CSN.  When our snapshot model was invented, xip was just array of few elements, and that cause no problem.  Now, we're considering threads to help us handling thousands of connections.  Snapshot with thousands of xips looks ridiculous.  Collecting such a large snapshot could be more expensive than single index lookup.

These two patches threads and CSN are both complicated and require hard work during multiple release cycles to get committed.  But I really hope that their cumulative effect can dramatically improve situation on high number of connections.  There are already some promising benchmarks in CSN thread.  I wonder if we already can do some cumulative benchmarks of threads + CSN?