Re: Threaded Sorting

I wouldn't hold your breath for any form of threading.  Since PostgreSQL
is process based, you might consider having a pool of sort processes
which address this but I doubt you'll get anywhere talking about threads
here.

Greg


On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 02:46, Hans-Jürgen Schönig wrote:
> Did anybody think about threaded sorting so far?
> Assume an SMP machine. In the case of building an index or in the case
> of sorting a lot of data there is just one backend working. Therefore
> just one CPU is used.
> What about starting a thread for every temporary file being created?
> This way CREATE INDEX could use many CPUs.
> Maybe this is worth thinking about because it will speed up huge
> databases and enterprise level computing.
>
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