Re: OpenMP in PostgreSQL-8.4.0

So I am trying to understand that can anyone rewrite some functions in
postgresql with OpenMP in order to increase performance.
does this work?

On Nov 29, 2009, at 3:05 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Reydan Cankur wrote:
>> You mean that backend does not support threading and everything I try
>> is useless
>> Is there a way to overcome this issue?
>> Is there anything I can adjust on backend to enable threading?
>> Is there any documentation to advise?
>
> Uh, "no" to all those questions. We offer client-side threading, but
> not in the server.
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>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Reydan
>>
>>
>> On Nov 28, 2009, at 6:42 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>>> Reydan Cankur <reydan(dot)cankur(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>>>> I am trying to run postgresql functions with threads by using
>>>> OpenMP.
>>>
>>> This is pretty much doomed to failure. It's *certainly* doomed to
>>> failure if you just hack up one area of the source code without
>>> dealing
>>> with the backend's general lack of support for threading.
>>>
>>> regards, tom lane
>>
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