Investigating Multithreaded PostgreSQL
Presenters Thomas Munro Stonebraker Source PGConf.dev 2025 Postgres’ Path to Multi-Threading: A Complex Journey 🚀💡👨💻 PostgreSQL is a powerhouse database, but its architecture presents some interesting challenges when it comes to scaling performance. This presentation segment dives deep into the ambitious goal of transforming PostgreSQL into a truly multi-threaded database, outlining the challenges, proposed solutions, and current progress. The speaker emphasizes that this isn’t a simple task, requiring significant architectural changes and community effort. ...