Re: Don't Thread On Me (PostgreSQL related)

On Jan 26, 4:52 pm, Rodrigo E. De León Plicet <rdele(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)gmail(dot)com>
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> http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/Multithread-Query-Planner-td5...
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> was mentioned in a performance sub-group posting. Give it a read.
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> Back? It means, so far as I can see, that PG is toast. It will fall
> down to being the cheap and dirty alternative to MySql, which even
> has, at least two, multi-threaded engines. DB2 switched it's *nix
> engine to threads from processes with release 9.5. Oracle claims it
> for releases going back to 7 (I haven't tried to determine which parts
> or applications; Larry has bought so many tchochtkes over the
> years...). SQL Server is threaded.
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> Given that cpu's are breeding threads faster than cores,
> PG will fall into irrelevance.
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> Source:http://drcoddwasright.blogspot.com/2012/01/dont-thread-on-me.html
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> Comments?

Author's followup:

http://drcoddwasright.blogspot.com/2012/02/damn-you-damocles.html