From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Cc: Juan Casero \(FL FLC\) <Juan.Casero@wholefoods.com>
Cc: Luke Lonergan <llonergan@greenplum.com>
Subject: Re: Sun Fire T2000 and PostgreSQL 8.1.3
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 15:01:39 -0700
Message-ID: <200604051501.40109.josh@agliodbs.com> (raw)
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References: <7583B3F1891CC0429FA4A44952AA539C66FA6D@wfm-exchprd2.wfm.pvt>
Juan,
> When I hit
> this pgsql on this laptop with a large query I can see the load spike up
> really high on both of my virtual processors. Whatever, pgsql is doing
> it looks like both cpu's are being used indepently.
Nope, sorry, you're being decieved. Postgres is strictly one process, one
query.
You can use Bizgres MPP to achieve multithreading; it's proprietary and you
have to pay for it. It does work well, though.
More importantly, though, you haven't really explained why you care about
multithreading.
--
--Josh
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco
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