Re: Support Parallel Query Execution in Executor

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Myron Scott <lister(at)sacadia(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Support Parallel Query Execution in Executor
Date: 2006-04-09 19:18:04
Message-ID: 20060409191804.GC15094@surnet.cl
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Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> On 4/9/06, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > Oh? Anything much above the level of bufmgr is going to be dependent on
> > relcache, syscache, etc, and those are all definitely database-specific.
> > You can't just retarget a backend to operate in another database, at
> > least not without major changes in that infrastructure.
>
> It's not that complicated and it may not prove to be the best method,
> but it's worth a try. When I get done playing with it, I'll send it
> to ya to check out.

Hmm, if it turns out to work, I'm interested. This is something that
definitely could be of some help to autovacuum. Please post to
pgsql-patches.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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