Обсуждение: Dual processors for Postgres?

I may have a chance to upgrade the hardware for our db server in a few
months time. Are there any advantages to using a dual processor system
for Postgres?

-Tony Reina

> I may have a chance to upgrade the hardware for our db server in a few
> months time. Are there any advantages to using a dual processor system
> for Postgres?

If you are CPU bound, PostgreSQL can spread backends across CPU's.  If
you hare I/O bound, it will not help much.

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