On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:06:51PM +0100, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> 2013/1/16 Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net>:
> > * Bruce Momjian (br...@momjian.us) wrote:
> >> I am not sure how a COPY could be easily parallelized, but I supposed it
> >> could be done as part of the 1GB segment feature. People have
> >> complained that COPY is CPU-bound, so it might be very interesting to
> >> see if we could offload some of that parsing overhead to a child.
> >
> > COPY can certainly be CPU bound but before we can parallelize that
> > usefully we need to solve the problem around extent locking when trying
> > to do multiple COPY's to the same table.
>
> Probably update any related indexes and constraint checking should be
> paralellized.
Wiki updated:
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Parallel_Query_Execution
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