Re: Is PostgreSQL multi-threaded?

Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>
> * Rich Teer <richard.teer@rite-group.com> [000529 17:03] wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a (hopefully) easy & quick question: is PostgreSQL 7.0 (or earlier
> > releases) multithreaded, i.e., will it make good use of multiple processors?
> > The target platform is Sun SPARC (SuperSPARC & UltraSPARC), running Solaris 7
> > or Solaris 8.
>
> Postgresql works under a multi-process model, it will take advantage
> of multiple processors.  However it not multi-threaded.
>
So in other words, it *is* multithreaded.  It just uses heavyweight
threads.