Luke, > Yep. Fix the visibility issue - there are a number of good ideas on how to > do it, we are in a position to bang it out now IMO.
Actually, a group of us discussed this at the Code Sprint in Toronto, and came up with a plan which will also reduce row overhead on large tables. I can't remember who was working on that though. > >> We already have splitting queries among CPUs and machines. > > > > Yes, YOU do. We don't. > > Details, details - redefine "We" and it's the same thing. Well, if you'll give us the schedule for open-sourcing MPP 2.0 ... ;-) And actually, even incorporating very limited multi-threading of queries ... such as the proposal to dispatch an I/O thread for seq scans ... would help PostgreSQL a lot. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL @ Sun San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly