Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 02:30:52PM +0200, Stefano Dal Pra wrote:
>> The main goal would be to get multiple results while scanning the
>> table[s] once only
>> thus getting results in a faster way.
>
> In 8.3, Postgres will do this for you itself -- if you already have a
> sequential scan running against a given table, another one starting in
> parallel will simply piggyback it.
You'd have to run the seq scans at the same time, from two different
backends, so it's not going to help here.
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Heikki Linnakangas
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