Re: why postgresql over other RDBMS

On Thu, 31 May 2007 22:20:09 +0200, Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> wrote:

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> On May 25, 2007, at 5:28 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
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>> That's true at the level of DDL operations, but AFAIK we could
>> parallelize table-loading and index-creation steps pretty effectively
>> --- and that's where all the time goes.
>
> I would be happy with parallel builds of the indexes of a given table.
> That way you have just one scan of the whole table to build all its
> indexes.

    Will the synchronized seq scan patch be able to do this by issuing all
the CREATE INDEX commands at the same time from several different database
connections ?