On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 12:12:22PM -0400, Chris Browne wrote: > Everyone involved in development seems to me to have a reasonably keen > understanding as to what the potential benefits of threading are; the > value is that there fall out plenty of opportunities to parallelize > the evaluation of portions of queries. Alas, it wouldn't be until > *after* all the effort goes in that we would get any idea as to what > kinds of speedups this would provide.
My understanding is that the original suggestion was to use threads within individual backends to allow for parallel query execution, not swiching to a completely thread-based model. In any case, there are other ways to enable parallelism without using threads, such as handing actual query execution off to a set of processes. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com 512-569-9461 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
