| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Cc: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>, Sailesh Krishnamurthy <sailesh(at)cs(dot)berkeley(dot)edu>, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: APR 1.0 released |
| Date: | 2004-10-08 15:47:39 |
| Message-ID: | 200410081547.i98Fldu08697@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> >
> > Added to TODO:
> >
> > * Consider parallel processing a single query
> >
> > This would involve using multiple threads or processes to do optimization,
> > sorting, or execution of single query. The major advantage of such a
> > feature would be to allow multiple CPUs to work together to process a
> > single query.
>
> Do we have 'make backend thread safe' listed yet? As I recall it, until
> that gets done, parallelization of anything was considered to be a
> relatively onerous task, no?
Well, not really. We could perhaps make sorting be thread-safe without
doing the entire backend itself. The only trick would be making modules
used by sorting thread-safe, not the whole thing.
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