Re: .NET or Mono functions in PG

> I did look at this at some earlier point as well. One big 
> problem at that time was that once you embedded mono, you had 
> all sorts of threads running in your backend ;-)

yes, threads running around could become a show stopper for both Mono and
MS.NET
This is something I want to be sure of before I begin. 

> Another way to do it is "the PL/J" way (I think). Which is 
> starting up a separate process with the VM in it and then do 
> RPC of some kind to it.
> Which has more overhead per call, but lower per backend etc. 
> And a lot less "dangerous".

This is actually my plan B, hence it is less dangerous.
I am thinking the "started process" can stay alive and act 
as a service of some kind to handle/answer calls form multiple
backends and shutdown itself after a period of time being 
idle.


Regards,
Gevik Babakhani
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