Re: Parallel query execution

From: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Gavin Flower <GavinFlower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Parallel query execution
Date: 2013-01-17 01:04:05
Message-ID: CAMkU=1w675xakacASACWXyqcfVv1iDwKCJNu75fzO+WU_Dg_Zw@mail.gmail.com
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On Tuesday, January 15, 2013, Stephen Frost wrote:

> * Gavin Flower (GavinFlower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz <javascript:;>) wrote:
> > How about being aware of multiple spindles - so if the requested
> > data covers multiple spindles, then data could be extracted in
> > parallel. This may, or may not, involve multiple I/O channels?
>
> Yes, this should dovetail with partitioning and tablespaces to pick up
> on exactly that.

I'd rather not have the benefits of parallelism be tied to partitioning if
we can help it. Hopefully implementing parallelism in core would result in
something more transparent than that.

Cheers,

Jeff

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