Re: [pgsql-www] NuSphere and PostgreSQL for windows

Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar@persistent.co.in> writes:
> Considering this could be a configure time option, you mean to say
> that even on Unix we could get threaded postgresql which would not
> require any shared buffers but instead operate upon local shared
> buffers only?

Only if we were prepared to support multiple, no doubt incompatible
threading libraries, which is exactly what I wasn't volunteering us for.

> I am sure local buffers would be lot cheaper than shared buffers.

On what do you base that?  It sounds like pure fantasy to me.  RAM is RAM.
        regards, tom lane