Re: [HACKERS] Postgres Optimization: IO and Data Organization

2004-05-06 Thread Gaetano Mendola
Doug McNaught wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Thornton) writes: Is Postgres always one process per client, or can it spawn additional processes to parallelise some operations such as a nested loops join operation? One process per client connection. Right now there is no spawning of additional "w

Re: [HACKERS] Postgres Optimization: IO and Data Organization

2004-05-05 Thread Doug McNaught
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Thornton) writes: > I want to understand how Postgres organizes data and handles IO > operations so that I will better know how to optimize a Postgres > database server. I am looking for answers to specific questions and > pointers to where this stuff is documented. If yo

[HACKERS] Postgres Optimization: IO and Data Organization

2004-05-05 Thread James Thornton
I want to understand how Postgres organizes data and handles IO operations so that I will better know how to optimize a Postgres database server. I am looking for answers to specific questions and pointers to where this stuff is documented. How does Postgres organize its data? For example, is it g