From: Trevor Talbot <quension@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Finneid <tfinneid@student.matnat.uio.no>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: utilising multi-cpu/core machines?
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 17:07:57 -0700
Message-ID: <90bce5730709051707j30fb4ac9w4c65158f736e22e5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46DF3082.7040301@ifi.uio.no>
References: <46DF3082.7040301@ifi.uio.no>
On 9/5/07, Thomas Finneid <tfinneid@student.matnat.uio.no> wrote:
> how does pg utilise multi cpus/cores, i.e. does it use more than one
> core? and possibly, how, are there any documentation about this.
PostgreSQL creates a new process to handle each connection to the
database. Multiple sessions can therefore spread across multiple
cores, but a single session will never use more than one.
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