Re: Support Parallel Query Execution in Executor

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Myron Scott" <lister(at)sacadia(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Support Parallel Query Execution in Executor
Date: 2006-04-09 19:11:03
Message-ID: 12866.1144609863@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Jonah H. Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> The reader-like processes or "execution agents", whatever you want to
> call them, are limited to the postgres database only because they've
> been coded that way... but there's nothing that actually restricts
> them from being used for any database.

Oh? Anything much above the level of bufmgr is going to be dependent on
relcache, syscache, etc, and those are all definitely database-specific.
You can't just retarget a backend to operate in another database, at
least not without major changes in that infrastructure.

regards, tom lane

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