Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-www] NuSphere and PostgreSQL for windows

2003-09-26 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Greg Stark wrote: Shridhar Daithankar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The little pthreads programming I did on linux/freeBSD tells me that it supports majority of features except TLS(linux2.4/linuxthreads) and per thread signals. LinuxThreads is dead. NPTL is the way and the light. It has ELF TLS

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-www] NuSphere and PostgreSQL for windows

2003-09-25 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Treat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 13:11, Bruce Momjian wrote: SRA's Windows port is up to 7.3.4, and I think they just released version 1.1, so that is going fine --- and I have the source code to use in our native Win32 port, just not the threading stuff. And if

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-www] NuSphere and PostgreSQL for windows

2003-09-25 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Tom Lane wrote: Robert Treat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 13:11, Bruce Momjian wrote: SRA's Windows port is up to 7.3.4, and I think they just released version 1.1, so that is going fine --- and I have the source code to use in our native Win32 port, just not the threading

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-www] NuSphere and PostgreSQL for windows

2003-09-25 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: BTW, I've been wondering lately if we'd not be better off to look at using threading in the Windows port, if it'd help us get around the fork/exec data transfer problem. I'm not sure that it would, mind you, but if it would give an answer it might be a lot less painful than

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-www] NuSphere and PostgreSQL for windows

2003-09-25 Thread Tom Lane
Shridhar Daithankar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Considering this could be a configure time option, you mean to say that even on Unix we could get threaded postgresql which would not require any shared buffers but instead operate upon local shared buffers only? Only if we were prepared to

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-www] NuSphere and PostgreSQL for windows

2003-09-25 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Tom Lane wrote: Shridhar Daithankar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Considering this could be a configure time option, you mean to say that even on Unix we could get threaded postgresql which would not require any shared buffers but instead operate upon local shared buffers only? Only if we were

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-www] NuSphere and PostgreSQL for windows

2003-09-25 Thread Greg Stark
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Shridhar Daithankar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Considering this could be a configure time option, you mean to say that even on Unix we could get threaded postgresql which would not require any shared buffers but instead operate upon local shared buffers

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-www] NuSphere and PostgreSQL for windows

2003-09-25 Thread Greg Stark
Shridhar Daithankar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The little pthreads programming I did on linux/freeBSD tells me that it supports majority of features except TLS(linux2.4/linuxthreads) and per thread signals. LinuxThreads is dead. NPTL is the way and the light. It has ELF TLS which for

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-www] NuSphere and PostgreSQL for windows

2003-09-25 Thread Philip Yarra
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 01:18 am, Greg Stark wrote: Well if you're only going to do one threading API you may as well pick the POSIX standard. Windows threading is only useful for windows, POSIX threading would work on every other OS, Solaris, Linux, BSD, etc. Is there a POSIX threads wrapper for