Re: Is PostgreSQL multi-threaded?

On Mon, 29 May 2000, Joseph Shraibman wrote:

> > Postgresql works under a multi-process model, it will take advantage
> > of multiple processors.  However it not multi-threaded.
> >
> So in other words, it *is* multithreaded.  It just uses heavyweight
> threads.

Thanks - but I did mean (light weight) threads, as opposed to processes.
I think the former can be more efficient than the latter - although perhaps
a bit more tricky to design well!

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