"Fred&Dani&Pandora&Aquiles" <[email protected]> writes:
> I asked a while ago in this group about the possibility to implement a
> parallel planner in a multithread way, and the replies were that the
> proposed approach couldn't be implemented, because the postgres is not
> thread-safe. With the new feature Background Worker Processes, such
> implementation would be possible?
I don't think that bgworkers as currently implemented make this any more
practical than it was before. The communication overhead with a
separate process would swamp any benefit in most cases.
regards, tom lane
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