=?ISO-8859-15?Q?Yves_Wei=DFig?= <weis...@rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> writes:
> I am not aiming for full parallelization, only some
> parts of the algorithm regarding build, insert and search are going to
> be extended by Open MP. E.g. I want to parallelize searching in multiple
> pages by directing some portions to one thread and other portions to
> another thread. Do you think that this small amount of parallelization
> is possible? Or will there be complications with the used methods by the
> buffer manager and so on? What do you think? What are your thoughts?
The backend code is not designed for thread safety. This is not a case
where "only a little bit" of parallelism is going to be safe. It *will*
break.
regards, tom lane
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