| From: | Markus Schiltknecht <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch> |
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| To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: VLDB Features |
| Date: | 2007-12-12 19:26:16 |
| Message-ID: | 476035D8.4070304@bluegap.ch |
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Hi Josh,
Josh Berkus wrote:
> Sure. Imagine you have a 5TB database on a machine with 8 cores and only one
> concurrent user. You'd like to have 1 core doing I/O, and say 4-5 cores
> dividing the scan and join processing into 4-5 chunks.
Ah, right, thank for enlightenment. Heck, I'm definitely too focused on
replication and distributed databases :-)
However, there's certainly a great deal of an intersection between
parallel processing on different machines and parallel processing on
multiple CPUs - especially considering NUMA architecture.
*comes-to-think-again*...
>> Isn't Gavin Sherry working on this? Haven't read anything from him
>> lately...
>
> Me neither. Swallowed by Greenplum and France.
Hm.. good for him, I guess!
Regards
Markus
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