On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 02:51:13PM +0000, Seref Arikan wrote: > Thanks Bruce, > I too think that it should be fine, as long as I make sure that the spawned > threads do not call back to originating thread and they are properly terminated > once they're finished etc. > Various messages I've seen in the list archives seem to mention that spawning > threads is a bad idea, etc etc. I just could not find a technical discussion of > why this is a bad idea. Maybe I have failed to generate the correct search > terms. > It would be great to know why and when this would be a dangerous thing to do. The problem comes with calling Postgres subsystems from multiple threads, which it doesn't sound like you are doing. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
