Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > > > Added to TODO: > > > > * Consider parallel processing a single query > > > > This would involve using multiple threads or processes to do optimization, > > sorting, or execution of single query. The major advantage of such a > > feature would be to allow multiple CPUs to work together to process a > > single query. > > Do we have 'make backend thread safe' listed yet? As I recall it, until > that gets done, parallelization of anything was considered to be a > relatively onerous task, no?
Well, not really. We could perhaps make sorting be thread-safe without doing the entire backend itself. The only trick would be making modules used by sorting thread-safe, not the whole thing. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
