Re: hardware to get best performance

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Vincent Chen <vctw(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: hardware to get best performance
Date: 2004-11-24 02:36:34
Message-ID: 20041124023634.GA27076@wolff.to
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On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 22:34:23 +0800,
Vincent Chen <vctw(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi, all
>
> Does postgresql support thread? Or let me put it this way, will postgresql get
> better performance on multiple processor host than single processor? What's the
> best platform, freebsd? linux?

If you have multiple connections to the database server making simultaneous
queries, multiple processors will be used. This is the normal case for
real database use.

The best platform for you is probably the one you are most familiar with.

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