Multicore Postgres 9.0.1 issue - single transaction problem.

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Hello Postgres Users.

Last days I've installed and configured new x64 release of PostgreSQL running Windows 2008 R2 with dual XEON 5530 processors (2x4xHT = 16 working units). Previously the database was running on Fedora 12 x86_64 under Microsoft hypervisor (HyperV) thus because of the network card driver limitation there was only one core available.

The problem I'm facing is a very long, single transaction lasting about 12hours or even more (as it doesn't exist Pragma Autonomous Transaction like Oracle has) that consist of tones of PLPGSQL code, processing a lot of data, causing huge CPU load and disk drive transfers. When moved to the x64 system as described above, the shared memory size is not a problem anymore, the disk channel is running very smoothly, the only suprising think is that the transaction above utilizes only one core of the machine - is it possible to parallelize it without rewriting all the code from scratch?

Is there any configuration parameter limiting number of CPUs? The release is a standard/public x64 binary of PostgreSQL 9.0.1, taken following official site.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Piotr Czekalski

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