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pg-python: Execute Python 3 code from PostgreSQL functions.

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Enable threading for dispatching non-DB jobs #9

Open jwp opened 14 years ago

jwp commented 14 years ago

In some more curious situations, it may be desirable to run some threads in the backend for managing multiple I/O jobs.

Current gating aspects:

Threads cannot have access to the database (should be easy with existing protections)
Parts of pg-python rely on global state, Py_ALLOCATE_OWNER()
Thread finalization on_proc_exit?
Other lower level problems/threads in the backend are frickin' scary?

Another option is to just use event driven async systems.