Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql / Threads / Scalability

From: Elmar(dot)Haneke(at)gmx(dot)de
To: pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql / Threads / Scalability
Date: 2000-03-05 13:59:27
Message-ID: 2ADB341FAF@haneke.de
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Timothy Glover schrieb:
>
> Hi,
> Im very new to this list please excuse me if ive posted to the wrong place.
> I was just wondering if postgresql has support for SMP/threads ?
> I was also wondering how scalable it is ?

In opposite to Oracle and other big commercial databases PostgreSQL will
not utilize multiple CPU to process an single SQL-statement faster.

Since for each Client-Connection an separate process on the server is created,
PostgreSQL will utilize mutliple CPU to raise overall throughput in an multi-user
environment.

If you have an single client requesting much work, an additional CPU would be
waste. If you have mutliple clients, SMP sould speedup processing.

Elmar

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