Re: Parallel query execution

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:39:10PM +0000, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On 15 January 2013 22:14, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > I believe it is time to start adding parallel execution to the backend.
> > We already have some parallelism in the backend:
> > effective_io_concurrency and helper processes.  I think it is time we
> > start to consider additional options.
> 
> A few months back, I remarked [1] that speeding up sorting using
> pipelining and asynchronous I/O was probably parallelism low-hanging
> fruit. That hasn't changed, though I personally still don't have the
> bandwidth to look into it in a serious way.
> 
> [1] http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAEYLb_VeZpKDX54VEx3X30oy_UOTh89XoejJW6aucjjiUjskXw@mail.gmail.com

OK, I added the link to the wiki.

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