Re: Support Parallel Query Execution in Executor - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Support Parallel Query Execution in Executor
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Msg-id 20060411180627.GQ11760@surnet.cl
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In response to Re: Support Parallel Query Execution in Executor  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
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Greg Stark wrote:

> Even on Solaris I'm sure parsing and preparing plans for all the queries,
> building up the system table cache for all the objects in the database, and so
> on are much much more expensive than fork(). I wouldn't be surprised if even
> on windows it was still a pretty close race.

Parsing/planning what queries?  Regarding system caches, they are
populated from a cache file; they are not read from the catalogs each
time.

But while we don't see a patch implementing the idea, this is all very
theoretical and probably wrong.

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