At 05:50 PM 2/9/00 +1100, Chris Bitmead wrote:
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>Is there any particular reason why a backend has to be started by the
>postmaster unless it is the only backend running (in debug mode) ?
>
>I'm thinking here that
>
>(a) It would be more convenient to debug if you didn't have to shut down
>the postmaster to run gdb postgres and...
>
>(b) If that were the case you be part-way to implementing a
>single-process database option like some databases have.
I can see where (a) is true, but who really cares about (b) any
more? NT, BSD, or Linux on a several hundred dollar PC has no problem
with dozens of processes...
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