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Re: utilising multi-cpu/core machines?



On 9/5/07, Thomas Finneid <tfinneid(at)student(dot)matnat(dot)uio(dot)no> wrote:

> how does pg utilise multi cpus/cores, i.e. does it use more than one
> core? and possibly, how, are there any documentation about this.

PostgreSQL creates a new process to handle each connection to the
database.  Multiple sessions can therefore spread across multiple
cores, but a single session will never use more than one.



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