Re: One or more processor ? - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Bill Moran
Subject Re: One or more processor ?
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Msg-id 3F86EBD0.3050609@potentialtech.com
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In response to Re: One or more processor ?  (johnnnnnn <john@phaedrusdeinus.org>)
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johnnnnnn wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 12:42:04PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
>
>>4) It simply isn't practical to expect a single query to
>>   execute on multiple processors simultaneously.
>>
>>Do you know of any RDBMS that actually will execute a single query
>>on multiple processors?
>
> Yes, DB2 will do this if configured correctly. It's very useful for
> large, complicated queries that have multiple subplans.

I expected there would be someone who did (although I didn't know for
sure).

Is DB2 the only one that can do that?

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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