Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 03:33:38 +0200
From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@sigpipe.cz>
To: Halley Pacheco de Oliveira <halleypo@yahoo.com.br>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL 8.0.3 Documentation - Chapter 23. Monitoring Database
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# halleypo@yahoo.com.br / 2005-07-26 22:17:12 -0300:
> --- Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@sigpipe.cz> escreveu:
> >     But maybe I'm not understanding the point you're trying to make.
> >     To make things a bit clearer: what is it that you find so disturbing
> >     or surprising in the current PostgreSQL behavior? Why did you expect
> >     it reusing the same process, and what benefits do you expect (or
> >     preferably, have experimentally gained) from the alternative?
> 
> The surprise is:
> 
> Oracle - MTS -  Multi-Threaded-Server - MTS allows many user processes
> to share very few server processes. Without MTS, each user process
> requires its own dedicated server process; a new server process is
> created for each client requesting a connection. A dedicated server
> process remains associated to the user process for the remainder of
> the connection. With MTS many user processes connect to a dispatcher
> process. The dispatcher routes client requests to the next available
> shared server process. The advantage of MTS is that system overhead is
> reduced, so the number of users that can be supported is increased.

    I came to PostgreSQL from MySQL, which is multithreaded, and found
    PostgreSQL absolutely UNsurprising in this aspect. There's quite
    a few populare programs that behave similarly.
 
> Contrasting with this in PostgreSQL a new process is forked just to
> connect to another database.  The PostgreSQL behavior seems similar to
> old Oracle versions.

    So what? Is this a troll?

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