Robert Haas <robertmhaas@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > However, if we don't support that, we can't do any sort of pooling-ish > thing without the ability to pass file descriptors between processes; > and Tom seems fairly convinced there's no portable way to do that. Well, what it would come down to is: are we prepared to not support pooling on platforms without such a capability? It's certainly possible to do it on many modern platforms, but I don't believe we can make it happen everywhere. Generally we've tried to avoid having major features that don't work everywhere ... regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance