Re: why postgresql over other RDBMS

From: Vivek Khera <vivek(at)khera(dot)org>
To: pgsql-general General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: why postgresql over other RDBMS
Date: 2007-05-31 20:20:09
Message-ID: BD8CF586-777F-48F2-8356-87EF6E42DA98@khera.org
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On May 25, 2007, at 5:28 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

> That's true at the level of DDL operations, but AFAIK we could
> parallelize table-loading and index-creation steps pretty effectively
> --- and that's where all the time goes.

I would be happy with parallel builds of the indexes of a given
table. That way you have just one scan of the whole table to build
all its indexes.

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