Thanks, You are right, it is not what I'm doing, I'm simply calling code that works on the binary blob using multiple threads.
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 02:51:13PM +0000, Seref Arikan wrote: > > Thanks Bruce, > > I too think that it should be fine, as long as I make sure that the > spawned > > threads do not call back to originating thread and they are properly > terminated > > once they're finished etc. > > Various messages I've seen in the list archives seem to mention that > spawning > > threads is a bad idea, etc etc. I just could not find a technical > discussion of > > why this is a bad idea. Maybe I have failed to generate the correct > search > > terms. > > It would be great to know why and when this would be a dangerous thing > to do. > > The problem comes with calling Postgres subsystems from multiple > threads, which it doesn't sound like you are doing. > > -- > Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us > EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com > > + It's impossible for everything to be true. + >
