Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Am I missing something?? There is just *one* instance of this idea
> in, what,
>> four replies?? I find it so obvious, and so obviously the only
>> solution that
>> has any hope to work, that it makes me think I'm missing something ...
>>
>> Is it that multiple PostgreSQL processes will end up monopolizing as
>> many
>> CPU cores as you give it? (ok, that would suck, for sure :-))
>
> PostgreSQL is process based, so if you have one query that is eating a
> lot of cpu, it is only one cpu... you would have another for your
> render to run on.
There is still the issue that there could be several (many?) queries
running
concurrently --- but that's much easier to control at the application
level;
so maybe simply using a multi-CPU/multi-core hardware would be the
simplest solution?
Carlos
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