On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Serge Fonville <serge.fonville@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I could not find the reason as to why this way has been chosen by the > developers Because separate processes are much more robust than multiple threads. And on Linux, the difference in performance is minimal. Note some OSes like Windows, and to a lesser extent, Solaris, have significant overhead for forking processes, and run multi-threaded apps much faster. Since any real db in a heavy lifting situation is probably using a connection pooler, then the cost of startup of a new process isn't a big deal, because they're not getting started all the time anymore. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
