From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Marshall\, Steve <smarshall@wsi.com>
Cc: pgsql-patches@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: PL/TCL Patch to prevent postgres from becoming multithreaded
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:00:41 -0400
Message-ID: <46EACC49.3060404@dunslane.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bqc5m90n.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com>
References: <200709141720.l8EHKwX13792@momjian.us>
<87bqc5m90n.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com>
Gregory Stark wrote:
> Do we have anyone actively maintaining pltcl these days? I'm intentionally
> quite unfamiliar with Tcl or I would be happy to verify it's reasonable. But
> the explanation seems pretty convincing. If we don't have anyone maintaining
> it then we're pretty much at the mercy of applying whatever patches come in
> from people who are more familiar with it than us. In my experience that's how
> new maintainers for modules of free software are often found anyways.
>
>
I was hoping that Jan or somebody else with some Tcl-fu would comment. I
agree it probably shouldn't be deferred.
It does bother me a bit that the Tcl engine startup just starts firing
up threads without advertisement - I wondered if we shouldn't kick back
and say it's their problem to fix.
cheers
andrew
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