Re: Parallel Query Processing

On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 15:52 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 2:24 PM, aravind chandu <avin_friends@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >             I have a few questions related to the parallel query
> > processing.Can you guys tell me how to implement parallel query processing
> > in postgresql database.
>
> Do you mean one query being parallelized, or multiple queries running at once?
>
> PostgreSQL provides no capability to parallelize one query into
> multiple processes.

I have a tool that will allow you to manually parallelize a query (and
get the right answer). That is useful for certain larger queries. I'll
be publishing that a bit more visibly in next few months.

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