Re: Multi CPU Queries - Feedback and/or suggestions wanted!

Julius Stroffek wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> we would like to start some work on improving the performance of
> PostgreSQL in a multi-CPU environment. Dano Vojtek is student at the
> Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles university in Prague
> (http://www.mff.cuni.cz) and he is going to cover this topic in his
> master thesis. He is going to do some investigation in the methods and
> write down the possibilities and then he is going to implement something
> from that for PostgreSQL.
> 
> We want to come out with a serious proposal for this work after
> collecting the feedback/opinions and doing the more serious investigation.

Exciting stuff, and clearly a direction we need to explore.

> Topics that seem to be of interest and most of them were already
> discussed at developers meeting in Ottawa are
> 1.) parallel sorts
> 2.) parallel query execution
> 3.) asynchronous I/O

I think the current plan is to use posix_advise() to allow parallel I/O,
rather than async I/O becuase posix_advise() will require fewer code
changes.

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