> > >
> > > How hard would it be to pre-fork an extra backend for the database a
> > > user just requested so if they next user asks for the same database, the
> > > backend would already be started?
>
> Perhaps I'm missing something, but it seems to me that the cost of forking
> a new backend would be pretty trivial compared to the expense of processing
> anything but the most simple query. Am I wrong in that?
True on most OS's, but on Solaris, fork is pretty expensive, or at least
we are told.
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