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why does postgresql use a process per connection? Is there some advantage to doing this over using threads for each connection (or even asynchronous connection
by thayne 7y ago
why does postgresql use a process per connection? Is there some advantage to doing this over using threads for each connection (or even asynchronous connection handling)?
- int_19h 7y agoPostgres dates back to the era when multiple processes were the normal way of doing this kind of thing on Unix-like OSes, and POSIX threads were often poorly supported on free ones.