Martha Stewart called it a Good Thing when smarlowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Scott Marlowe) wrote: > On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 10:43, Joshua D. Drake wrote: >> > Has someone been working on the problem of splitting a query into pieces >> > and running it on multiple CPUs / multiple machines? Yes. Bizgress has >> > done that. >> >> I believe that is limited to Bizgress MPP yes? > > Yep. I hope that someday it will be released to the postgresql global > dev group for inclusion. Or at least parts of it. Question: Does the Bizgress/MPP use threading for this concurrency? Or forking? If it does so via forking, that's more portable, and less dependent on specific complexities of threading implementations (which amounts to non-portability ;-)). Most times Jan comes to town, we spend a few minutes musing about the "splitting queries across threads" problem, and dismiss it again; if there's the beginning of a "split across processes," that's decidedly neat :-). -- output = reverse("moc.liamg" "@" "enworbbc") http://linuxfinances.info/info/internet.html Why do we put suits in a garment bag, and put garments in a suitcase?