Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> >
> > Added to TODO:
> >
> > * Consider parallel processing a single query
> >
> > This would involve using multiple threads or processes to do optimization,
> > sorting, or execution of single query. The major advantage of such a
> > feature would be to allow multiple CPUs to work together to process a
> > single query.
>
> Do we have 'make backend thread safe' listed yet? As I recall it, until
> that gets done, parallelization of anything was considered to be a
> relatively onerous task, no?
Well, not really. We could perhaps make sorting be thread-safe without
doing the entire backend itself. The only trick would be making modules
used by sorting thread-safe, not the whole thing.
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