Re: Hardware/OS recommendations for large databases ( - Mailing list pgsql-performance

Steve Wampler wrote:

>Joshua D. Drake wrote:
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>>The reason you want the dual core cpus is that PostgreSQL can only
>>execute 1 query per cpu at a time,...
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>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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He means only one query can be executing on each cpu at any particular
instant.