Re: Parallel query execution

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 01:48:29AM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Bruce Momjian escribió:
> > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 01:28:18PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > >     Claudio, Stephen,
> > > 
> > >     It really seems like the areas where we could get the most "bang for the
> > >     buck" in parallelism would be:
> > > 
> > >     1. Parallel sort
> > >     2. Parallel aggregation (for commutative aggregates)
> > >     3. Parallel nested loop join (especially for expression joins, like GIS)
> > > 
> > > parallel data load? :/
> > 
> > We have that in pg_restore, and I thinnk we are getting parallel dump in
> > 9.3, right?  Unfortunately, I don't see it in the last 9.3 commit-fest. 
> > Is it still being worked on?
> 
> It's in the previous-to-last commitfest.  IIRC that patch required
> review and testing from people with some Windows background.
> 
> There are still 34 items needing attention in CF3.  I suggest that, if
> you have some spare time, your help would be very much appreciated
> there.  The commitfest that started on Jan 15th has 65 extra items.
> Anything currently listed in CF3 can rightfully be considered to be part
> of CF4, too.

Wow, I had no idea we were that far behind.  I have avoided commit-fest
work because I often travel so might leave the items abandoned, and I
try to do cleanup of items that never make the commit-fest --- I thought
that was something that needed doing too, and I rarely can complete that
task.

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