| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Matthew Wakeling <matthew(at)flymine(dot)org>, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, Dimitri <dimitrik(dot)fr(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Performance <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Any better plan for this query?.. |
| Date: | 2009-05-12 20:37:46 |
| Message-ID: | 603c8f070905121337s40b3d500tad60d62710e8a433@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 15:52 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> > 1. There is no (portable) way to pass the connection from the postmaster
>> > to another pre-existing process.
>>
>> [Googles.] It's not obvious to me that SCM_RIGHTS is non-portable,
>> and Windows has an API call WSADuplicateSocket() specifically for this
>> purpose.
>
> Robert, Greg,
>
> Tom's main point is it isn't worth doing. We have connection pooling
> software that works well, very well. Why do we want to bring it into
> core? (Think of the bugs we'd hit...) If we did, who would care?
I don't know. It seems like it would be easier to manage just
PostgreSQL than PostgreSQL + connection pooling software, but mostly I
was just curious whether it had been thought about, so I asked, and
the answer then led to a further question... was not intending to
make a big deal about it.
...Robert
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