On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Bruce Momjian
<bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 01:28:18PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
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> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Josh Berkus <
josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
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> Claudio, Stephen,
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> It really seems like the areas where we could get the most "bang for the
> buck" in parallelism would be:
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> 1. Parallel sort
> 2. Parallel aggregation (for commutative aggregates)
> 3. Parallel nested loop join (especially for expression joins, like GIS)
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> parallel data load? :/
9.3, right? Unfortunately, I don't see it in the last 9.3 commit-fest.
Is it still being worked on?
Not exactly, I meant something like being able to use parallel processing when doing INSERT or COPY directly in core. If there is a parallel processing infrastructure, it could also be used for such write operations. I agree that the cases mentioned by Josh are far more appealing though...
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