Re: why postgresql over other RDBMS

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On Thu, 31 May 2007 22:20:09 +0200, Vivek Khera <vivek(at)khera(dot)org> wrote:

> On May 25, 2007, at 5:28 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > That's true at the level of DDL operations, but AFAIK we could
> > parallelize table-loading and index-creation steps pretty effectively
> > --- and that's where all the time goes.
>
> I would be happy with parallel builds of the indexes of a given table.   
> That way you have just one scan of the whole table to build all its  
> indexes.

	Will the synchronized seq scan patch be able to do this by issuing all  
the CREATE INDEX commands at the same time from several different database  
connections ?