On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 04:10:08PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > 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 ... Which platforms do you have in mind here? All of the platforms I found documented to be supported seem to support at least one of SCM_RIGHTS, WSADuplicateSocket or STREAMS/FD_INSERT. Most if not all beside windows support SCM_RIGHTS. The ones I am dubious about support FD_INSERT... Andres -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
