Re: Parallel query execution

* Bruce Momjian (bruce@momjian.us) wrote:
> I am not sure how a COPY could be easily parallelized, but I supposed it
> could be done as part of the 1GB segment feature.  People have
> complained that COPY is CPU-bound, so it might be very interesting to
> see if we could offload some of that parsing overhead to a child.

COPY can certainly be CPU bound but before we can parallelize that
usefully we need to solve the problem around extent locking when trying
to do multiple COPY's to the same table.
Thanks,
    Stephen