REINDEX using only 1 CPU (of 2)

Hi,

I've got PG 8.2.3 running on a dual-core P4, and I noticed that, at least during reindexing, postgreSQL REINDEX process
isusing only 1 of those 2 cores.  You can clearly see this from this snippet from top: 

Cpu0  : 93.3% us,  6.7% sy,  0.0% ni,  0.0% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Cpu1  :  0.0% us,  2.6% sy,  0.0% ni, 85.5% id, 11.8% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si


  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
                                                                                                  
21909 pg  25   0  116m  89m  42m R 98.9  9.2   1:01.92 postgres: pg mydb [local] REINDEX



This PG 8.2.3 was compiled from sources on this box, so if there is anything in the config/install process that should
pickup that this box has "2" CPUs, perhaps that didn't happen?  I know I didn't manually instruct the config/install
thatthe box is a dual-core box.  This is running on a Linux box with the SMP-aware kernel. 

Is this a known limitation?  Am I reading this wrong?

Thanks,
Otis