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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Shridhar Daithankar <[email protected]>
Cc: Robert Treat <[email protected]>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] NuSphere and PostgreSQL for windows
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 10:01:50 -0400
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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 support multiple, no doubt incompatible
threading libraries, which is exactly what I wasn't volunteering us for.

> I am sure local buffers would be lot cheaper than shared buffers.

On what do you base that?  It sounds like pure fantasy to me.  RAM is RAM.

			regards, tom lane

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