Re: APR 1.0 released

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> >
> > Added to TODO:
> >
> > * Consider parallel processing a single query
> >
> >  This would involve using multiple threads or processes to do optimization,
> >  sorting, or execution of single query.  The major advantage of such a
> >  feature would be to allow multiple CPUs to work together to process a
> >  single query.
> 
> Do we have 'make backend thread safe' listed yet?  As I recall it, until 
> that gets done, parallelization of anything was considered to be a 
> relatively onerous task, no?

Well, not really.  We could perhaps make sorting be thread-safe without
doing the entire backend itself.  The only trick would be making modules
used by sorting thread-safe, not the whole thing.

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