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.