Re: hardware to get best performance - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Bruno Wolff III
Subject Re: hardware to get best performance
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Msg-id 20041124023634.GA27076@wolff.to
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In response to hardware to get best performance  (Vincent Chen <vctw@yahoo.com>)
List pgsql-admin
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 22:34:23 +0800,
  Vincent Chen <vctw@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi, all
>
> Does postgresql support thread? Or let me put it this way, will postgresql get
> better performance on multiple processor host than single processor? What's the
> best platform, freebsd? linux?

If you have multiple connections to the database server making simultaneous
queries, multiple processors will be used. This is the normal case for
real database use.

The best platform for you is probably the one you are most familiar with.

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