Re: Support Parallel Query Execution in Executor

Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> On 4/6/06, Qingqing Zhou <zhouqq(at)cs(dot)toronto(dot)edu> wrote:
>
>> I have written some experimental code of doing master-slave seqscan in
>> PostgreSQL. During the work, I feel we had enough infrastructure to support
>> parallel query execution.
>>
>
> Great work! I had looked into this a little bit and came to the same
> ideas/problems you did, but none of them seemed insurmountable at all.
> I'd be interested in working with you on this if you'd like.
>
> I'm interested in hearing Tom's suggestions on this topic too.
>
>

From time to time there is (often ill-informed) discussion about making
postgres multi-threaded - this strikes me as a possible candidate area
for multithreading, and maybe that would be a way to overcome some of
the problems mentioned.

Just a thought

cheers

andrew