Re: multi-threaded pgbench

Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>   
>> I think you should have it use pthreads if available, or Windows threads 
>> there, or fork() elsewhere.
>>     
>
> Hmm, but how will you communicate stats back from the sub-processes?
> pg_restore doesn't need anything more than a success/failure result
> from its child processes, but I think pgbench will want more.
>
>   

My first reaction is to say "use a pipe."

cheers

andtrew