Re: Is PostgreSQL multi-threaded? - Mailing list pgsql-general

> Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> >
> > * Rich Teer <richard.teer@rite-group.com> [000529 17:03] wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I have a (hopefully) easy & quick question: is PostgreSQL 7.0 (or earlier
> > > releases) multithreaded, i.e., will it make good use of multiple processors?
> > > The target platform is Sun SPARC (SuperSPARC & UltraSPARC), running Solaris 7
> > > or Solaris 8.
> >
> > Postgresql works under a multi-process model, it will take advantage
> > of multiple processors.  However it not multi-threaded.
> >
> So in other words, it *is* multithreaded.  It just uses heavyweight
> threads.

Exactly.

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