"D. Dante Lorenso" <dante@lorenso.com> writes:
> I'm running PostgreSQL 7.4 on a quad Xeon attached to a
> beefy disk array. However, I am begining to wonder if this is
> a waste of CPU power.
>
> I think I read somewhere that PostgreSQL is NOT multi-threaded.
> But, will it be able to take advantage of multiple CPUs? Will
> I have to run separate postmaster instances to get the advantage?
PG uses a separate backend process for each connection, so if you have
multiple simultaneous connections they will use different CPUs.
Single queries will not be split across CPUs.
-Doug