Re: Support Parallel Query Execution in Executor

From: "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Markus Schiltknecht" <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch>
Cc: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Mike Rylander" <mrylander(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Qingqing Zhou" <zhouqq(at)cs(dot)toronto(dot)edu>
Subject: Re: Support Parallel Query Execution in Executor
Date: 2006-04-08 17:45:24
Message-ID: 36e682920604081045v1cd0c1der3662933bf298a233@mail.gmail.com
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On 4/8/06, Markus Schiltknecht <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch> wrote:
> ACK. As long as processes, signals and shared memory are used this could
> be as portable as PostgreSQL is now.

This is certainly the case.

> Ehm.. which additional I/O cost? Or do you count inter-process
> communication to I/O?

Inter-process will add a minimal amount, but if it's done correctly,
you'll still end up ahead.

> I'd like to help teaching PostgreSQL the art of parallel query
> execution.

Cool, we're not at the communication-level yet, but your help would be
appreciated.

> In case you're interested I'll compile a patch for review.

Surely!

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Jonah H. Harris, Database Internals Architect
EnterpriseDB Corporation
732.331.1324

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