Re: Threaded PosgreSQL server

On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Haroldo Stenger wrote:

> > > that mutating PG thread safe, will slow down a 7.3 release a lot,
> > > something not wanted by many here.
> > 
> > Depends on how it is handled ...
> 
> How do you see it not slowing down, when key developers said their view is that
> multithreading will pose a major obstacle? Are you envisioning any special
> approach not already talked about?

Excuse my butting in, but it large part we are talking about changing 
things like:

if (PqSomeStaticOrGlobalVariable) { ... }

to 

if (MyPort->PqSomeVariable) { ... }

converting to thread safety should not, at least for this kind of low 
hanging fruit, have any negative performance impact.  And from my vantage 
point it takes out a whole lot of "where did that come from and who set it 
when?" kinda questions when reading the code.  Of course I'm just getting 
my feet wet so feel free to correct my first impressions.

Brian