Re: PostgreSQL process architecture question. - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: PostgreSQL process architecture question.
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Msg-id 20080909161001.GN59092@commandprompt.com
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In response to PostgreSQL process architecture question.  ("Amber" <guxiaobo1982@hotmail.com>)
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On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 11:35:56PM +0800, Amber wrote:
> We know PostgreSQL uses one dedicated server process to serve one
client connection, what we want to know is whether PostgreSQL use
multiple threads inside agents processes to take advantage of multiple
CPUs.

No.  Note that "threading" is not automatically necessary to get more
than one processor to work on a single query.  But at the moment,
Postgres doesn't do that either.

A
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