Re: [HACKERS] Parallel postgresql

2003-10-14 Thread Bruce Momjian
Hans-Jürgen Schönig wrote: > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Martin Rusoff wrote: > > > >>I was just contemplating how to make postgres parallel (for DSS > >>applications)... Has anyone done work on this? It looks to me like there > >>are a couple of obvious places to add parallel operation: > >> > >>S

Re: [HACKERS] Parallel postgresql

2003-10-14 Thread Hans-Jürgen Schönig
Bruce Momjian wrote: Martin Rusoff wrote: I was just contemplating how to make postgres parallel (for DSS applications)... Has anyone done work on this? It looks to me like there are a couple of obvious places to add parallel operation: Stage 1) I/O , perhaps through MPIO - would improve tables

Re: [HACKERS] Parallel postgresql

2003-10-09 Thread Bruce Momjian
Hans-Jürgen Schönig wrote: > >>Stage 2) Parallel Postgres Servers, with the postmaster spawning off the > >>server on a different node (possibly borrowing some code from GNU queue) > >>and doing any buffer twiddling with RPC for that connection, The client > >>connection would still be through t

Re: [HACKERS] Parallel postgresql

2003-10-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
Martin Rusoff wrote: > I was just contemplating how to make postgres parallel (for DSS > applications)... Has anyone done work on this? It looks to me like there > are a couple of obvious places to add parallel operation: > > Stage 1) I/O , perhaps through MPIO - would improve tablescanning and

[HACKERS] Parallel postgresql

2003-10-07 Thread Martin Rusoff
I was just contemplating how to make postgres parallel (for DSS applications)... Has anyone done work on this? It looks to me like there are a couple of obvious places to add parallel operation: Stage 1) I/O , perhaps through MPIO - would improve tablescanning and load/unload operations. One (o