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From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: One or more processor ?
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In response to One or more processor ?  (Hervé Piedvache <herve@elma.fr>)
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Herve'

> A simple question about PostgreSQL ... I have a Pentium Xeon Quadri
> processors ...
> If I do a SQL request ... does PostgreSQL use one or more processor ?

For your configuration, yes, you want multiple processors.  Postgres (or
rather, the host OS) will distribute active connections over the multiple
processors.

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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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