David Garamond <lists@zara.6.isreserved.com> writes:
> Do the developers generally oppose the idea of a threaded (but
> non-embedded) backend as well? If the backend is thread-safe, then users
> can still choose to run multiprocess or multithreaded right?
The backend isn't thread-safe. There have been repeated discussions
about using threading in the backend (see the pgsql-hackers archives),
but so far no one has made a convincing case for it.
BTW, this whole discussion is getting pretty off-topic for -general;
I'd suggest pursuing it on -hackers.
regards, tom lane