Re: Scaling PostgreSQL at multicore Power8

On 2015-08-31 17:43:08 +0200, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> Well, I could test the patch on a x86 machine with 4 sockets (64 cores), but
> I wonder whether it makes sense at this point, as the patch really is not
> correct (judging by what Andres says).

Additionally it's, for default pgbench, really mostly a bottlneck after
GetSnapshotData() is fixed. You can make it a problem much earlier if
you have index nested loops over a lot of rows.

- Andres