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> I thought process forking was a fundamental aspect of Posgres' architecture. Is it correct to read above as effectively rearchitecting Postgres? Is it a smal
by anarazel 6y ago
> I thought process forking was a fundamental aspect of Posgres' architecture. Is it correct to read above as effectively rearchitecting Postgres?
Is it a small change? Certainly not. But it'd also not touch the majority of the code.
There have been prototypes for just going to threading by liberally sprinkling thread-local markers around - it works, but is fairly ugly. But more incrementally working towards that is quite doable.