On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:39:10PM +0000, Peter Geoghegan wrote: > On 15 January 2013 22:14, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > > I believe it is time to start adding parallel execution to the backend. > > We already have some parallelism in the backend: > > effective_io_concurrency and helper processes. I think it is time we > > start to consider additional options. > > A few months back, I remarked [1] that speeding up sorting using > pipelining and asynchronous I/O was probably parallelism low-hanging > fruit. That hasn't changed, though I personally still don't have the > bandwidth to look into it in a serious way. > > [1] > http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/caeylb_vezpkdx54vex3x30oy_uoth89xoejjw6aucjjiujs...@mail.gmail.com
OK, I added the link to the wiki. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
