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From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Scaling up PostgreSQL in Multiple CPU / Dual Core Powered Servers
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 08:23:42 -0500
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jojo.paderes@gmail.com ("Jojo Paderes") wrote:
> I'd like to know if the latest PostgreSQL release can scale up by
> utilizing multiple cpu or dual core cpu to boost up the sql
> executions.
>
> I already do a research on the PostgreSQL mailing archives and only
> found old threads dating back 2000. A lot of things have improved with
> PostgreSQL and hopefully the support for multiple cpu or dual cores is
> already provided.

If you submit multiple concurrent queries, they can be concurrently
processed on separate CPUs; that has long been supported, and people
have been using SMP systems to this end for years.
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