[postgis-devel] Parallel Support

[Sandro Santilli]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 08:46:20AM -0700, Paul Ramsey wrote:

> The best suggestion so far has been from Staphen Frost, to allow the
> workers to run their own "finalfn" or a "worker-side combine" as I
> call it, so that we can cascade the sets first at the worker level,
> then run one final combine on master before returning.

How about handling threads directly from within postgis
or in the CascadedUnion case directly from within libgeos ?

What do PostgreSQL threads add to custom threads ?

--strk;