The new Postgres database can be run across as many as 64 processor cores 
The open-source Postgres database continues to be refined for enterprises: The latest version, released Monday, contains a number of new features and performance enhancements designed to ease professional large-scale usage.
“Postgres has always done very well on personal computers, but with 9.2 it will run very nicely on very large servers,” said Tom Kincaid, director of global services for EnterpriseDB. EnterpriseDB, which offers a commercially supported version of Postgres, is a major contributor to the continued development of Postgres, also commonly referred to as PostgreSQL. “It will be in places it hasn’t been before.”
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