Hi Jeffrey,
thank you for the suggestion. Yes, they potentially can, we'll consider
this.
Julo
Jeffrey Baker wrote:
> I don't see why multiple CPUs can't work on the same node of a plan.
> For instance, consider a node involving a scan with an expensive
> condition, like UTF-8 string length. If you have four CPUs you can
> bring to bear, each CPU could take every fourth page, computing the
> expensive condition for each tuple in that page. The results of the
> scan can be retired asynchronously to the next node above.
>
> -jwb