[andyzweb]

postgres does horrible with multicore unless you have many concurrent pooled connections. fork-and-forget

[jeffdavis]

I think you're referring to postgres's inability to use more than one core per query, which is true (or mostly true... there are quite a few helper processes that take on some of the work).

For many smaller queries, postgres does great on multi-core, and pgbouncer is a good connection pooler.