From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Julius Stroffek <Julius(dot)Stroffek(at)Sun(dot)COM> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Dano Vojtek <danielkov(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Subject: | Re: Multi CPU Queries - Feedback and/or suggestions wanted! |
Date: | 2008-10-23 20:39:21 |
Message-ID: | 200810232039.m9NKdL517065@momjian.us |
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Julius Stroffek wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> we would like to start some work on improving the performance of
> PostgreSQL in a multi-CPU environment. Dano Vojtek is student at the
> Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles university in Prague
> (http://www.mff.cuni.cz) and he is going to cover this topic in his
> master thesis. He is going to do some investigation in the methods and
> write down the possibilities and then he is going to implement something
> from that for PostgreSQL.
>
> We want to come out with a serious proposal for this work after
> collecting the feedback/opinions and doing the more serious investigation.
Exciting stuff, and clearly a direction we need to explore.
> Topics that seem to be of interest and most of them were already
> discussed at developers meeting in Ottawa are
> 1.) parallel sorts
> 2.) parallel query execution
> 3.) asynchronous I/O
I think the current plan is to use posix_advise() to allow parallel I/O,
rather than async I/O becuase posix_advise() will require fewer code
changes.
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