> This has certainly been discussed before. > > IIRC the real argument against that was, that fork() isn't the most > expensive thing to do anymore. And Postgres does lots of other stuff > after accept(), namely connecting to a certain database, > authenticating the user, etc.. Ok. I knew that. I made the question because it seems that, for example, Oracle in release 11g is moving to a similar solution in order to solve connection pooling problems. For example look at the following link: http://pbarut.blogspot.com/2007/08/oracle-11g-drcp-database-resident.html Denis ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
