Re: Postgres community version limitaiton - help needed

> Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 15:13:06 -0700
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Postgres community version limitaiton - help needed
> From: scott.marlowe@gmail.com
> To: akp123@hotmail.com
> CC: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
>
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:44 AM, ajay kumar <akp123@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear All ,
> >
> >
> >
> >  Could you please confirm if the Postgres community version can support the
> > 128GB RAM and 4 processors expandable upto 8 processors (each quad core).
>
> Not sure what you mean by "community edition". There's PostgreSQL.
> From the postgresql.org website, which is what most folks use.
>
> I've run it on 40 hyperthreaded CPUS (80 virtual cores) and it worked
> just fine and used all 80 cores with enough parallel processes
> running.
>
> Can a single query use > 1 core? not. Not the way the engine is designed.