Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion
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Msg-id 430E6FFE.7010403@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion  (Rod Taylor <pg@rbt.ca>)
Responses Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion  (Rod Taylor <pg@rbt.ca>)
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Rod Taylor wrote:

>      * Multi-CPU sorts. Take a large single sort like an index creation
>        and split the work among multiple CPUs.
>
>  
>

This really implies threading, doesn't it? And presumably it would have 
many possible uses besides this one for doing parallel work, e.g. maybe 
the planner could evaluate several alternative plans in parallel.

cheers

andrew


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