You can actually find some dissent from one of the core team in the linked thread: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA%2BTgmobuHESqa%3Db5ssoKmoNhHXRQ5KHsfA

You can actually find some dissent from one of the core team in the linked thread: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA%2BTgmobuHESqa%3Db5ssoKmoNhHXRQ5KHsfAB0RknvZh%2Bf_Rbt2g%40mail.gmail.com https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA%2BTgmobuHESqa%3Db5s... Modern PG is already threaded out of necessity for many kinds of query, there's really no other way to fully exploit modern hardware (or indeed, much of the hardware released in the past 30 years).