
> This brings up a good point.   Threads are mostly useful when you have
> multiple processes that need to share lots of data, and the interprocess
> overhead is excessive.  Because we already have that shared memory area,
> this benefit of threads doesn't buy us much.  We sort of already have
> done the _shared_ part, and the addition of sharing our data pages is
> not much of a win.

I agree, that this is not the issue. The only issue for PostgreSQL would be to 
efficiently support tenthousands of users.

Andreas

Mon, 11 Dec 2000 11:58:57 +0100
Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA@wien.spardat.at>
AW: Using Threads?