Hi, On 2017-10-05 17:31:07 -0500, Nico Williams wrote: > > > vfork() is widely demonized, but it's actually quite superior > > > (performance-wise) to fork() when all you want to do is exec-or-exit > > > since no page copying (COW or otherwise) needs be done when using > > > vfork(). > > > > Not on linux, at least not as of a year or two back. > > glibc has it. Other Linux C libraries might also; I've not checked them > all.
It has it, but it's not more efficient. > > I do think it'd be good to move more towards threads, but not at all for > > the reasons mentioned here. > > You don't think eliminating a large difference between handling of WIN32 > vs. POSIX is a good reason? I seems like you'd not really get a much reduced set of differences, just a *different* set of differences. After investing time. Greetings, Andres Freund -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
