Re: Any better plan for this query?..

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Scott Carey <scott(at)richrelevance(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Dimitri <dimitrik(dot)fr(at)gmail(dot)com>, Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Performance <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Any better plan for this query?..
Date: 2009-05-12 18:46:57
Message-ID: 1242154017.3843.294.camel@ebony.2ndQuadrant
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On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 11:30 -0700, Scott Carey wrote:
> the fact is there is no evidence that a connection pooler will fix the
> scalability from 16 > 32 cores.

There has been much analysis over a number of years of the effects of
the ProcArrayLock, specifically the O(N^2) effect of increasing numbers
of connections on GetSnapshotData(). Most discussion has been on
-hackers, not -perform.

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