On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 15:50 -0500, Jignesh K. Shah wrote: > Is there a way such an operation can be spawned as a worker process? > Generally during such loading - which most people will do during > "offpeak" hours I expect additional CPU resources available. By > delegating such additional work to worker processes, we should be able > to capitalize on additional cores in the system. > > Even if it is a single core, the mere fact that the loading process will > eventually wait for a read from the input file which cannot be > non-blocking, the OS can timeslice it well for the second process to use > those wait times for the index population work.
If Dimitri is working on parallel load, why bother? -- Simon Riggs 2ndQuadrant http://www.2ndQuadrant.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
