Re: Process wakeups when idle and power consumption

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:52, Peter Geoghegan <peter@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 9 May 2011 11:19, Heikki Linnakangas
> <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>
>> In the child, spawn a thread
>
> How exactly should I go about this? The one place in the code that I
> knew to use multiple threads, pgbench, falls back on "emulation with
> fork()" on some platforms.

If you're doing this Win32 specific, take a look at
src/backend/port/win32/signal.c for an example.

If you're not doing this win32-specific, I doubt we really want
threads to be involved...

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