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From Steve Wampler
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In response to Re: Hardware/OS recommendations for large databases (  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> The reason you want the dual core cpus is that PostgreSQL can only
> execute 1 query per cpu at a time,...

Is that true?  I knew that PG only used one cpu per query, but how
does PG know how many CPUs there are to limit the number of queries?

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