Check out www.greatbridge.com for performace tests. Postgres compared quite
favourably to Oracle, and MS
To answer your question; no postmaster won't die.
Remember the system probably isn't doing anything else so why not give
postmaster 100% of the cpu?
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Linh Luong" <linh.luong@computalog.com>
To: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 12:18 PM
Subject: [GENERAL] question
> Hi all,
>
> I am running postgres7.1 and php4.0. When I do top while running my
> query via browser I notice that the postmaster process takes up almost
> 100% of the CPU and this is just for one user. What would happen if
> multiple users does the same search at the same time would the
> postmaster die?
>
> Thanks
>
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