Re: multi-threaded pgbench

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Itagaki Takahiro wrote:
>> Is it acceptable to use pthread in contrib module?

> We don't have a precedent it seems.  I think the requirement would be
> that it should compile if pthread support is not present.

Right.  Breaking it for non-pthread environments is not acceptable.

The real question here is whether it will be a problem if pgbench
delivers significantly different results when built with or without
threading support.  I can see arguents either way on that ...
        regards, tom lane