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On a Postgresql query before version 9.6 is limited to a single CPU core. Depending on the amount of data it has to query it absolutely can take forever.
by Wheaties466 10y ago
On a Postgresql query before version 9.6 is limited to a single CPU core.
Depending on the amount of data it has to query it absolutely can take forever.
- qeternity 10y agoEven now, it's only multicore when doing full table scans (iirc...)
- jasonmp85 10y agoTrue (see here: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/parallel-plans.html https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/parallel-plans.ht... ), but in PostgreSQL 10 there are Parallel Bitmap Heap Scans and Parallel Index Scans (see here: http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2017/03/parallel-query-v2.html http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2017/03/parallel-query-v2.html ).
- user5994461 10y agoConsider a paid database if that's what you need. It's not new that postgre has some limitations compared to the SQL servers/Oracle.