Re: Is PostgreSQL multi-threaded?

From: Joseph Shraibman <jks(at)selectacast(dot)net>
To: Alfred Perlstein <bright(at)wintelcom(dot)net>
Cc: Rich Teer <richard(dot)teer(at)rite-group(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Is PostgreSQL multi-threaded?
Date: 2000-05-30 02:28:58
Message-ID: 3933276A.68CA7125@selectacast.net
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Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>
> * Rich Teer <richard(dot)teer(at)rite-group(dot)com> [000529 17:03] wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a (hopefully) easy & quick question: is PostgreSQL 7.0 (or earlier
> > releases) multithreaded, i.e., will it make good use of multiple processors?
> > The target platform is Sun SPARC (SuperSPARC & UltraSPARC), running Solaris 7
> > or Solaris 8.
>
> Postgresql works under a multi-process model, it will take advantage
> of multiple processors. However it not multi-threaded.
>
So in other words, it *is* multithreaded. It just uses heavyweight
threads.

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