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Re: [PERFORM] A Better External Sort?


  • From: "Dann Corbit" <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com>
  • To: <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
  • Cc: "Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwbaker(at)acm(dot)org>
  • Subject: Re: [PERFORM] A Better External Sort?
  • Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 11:32:12 -0700
  • Message-id: <D425483C2C5C9F49B5B7A41F8944154757D124(at)postal(dot)corporate(dot)connx(dot)com>

If I were to be nosy and poke around in this, what patches of code would
I be interested in?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-hackers-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org [mailto:pgsql-hackers-
> owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Josh Berkus
> Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 11:28 AM
> To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Cc: Jeffrey W. Baker
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [PERFORM] A Better External Sort?
> 
> Jeff,
> 
> > I would just run it under the profiler and see how many times
> > beginmerge() is called.
> 
> Hmm, I'm not seeing it at all in the oprofile results on a
100million-row
> sort.
> 
> --
> --Josh
> 
> Josh Berkus
> Aglio Database Solutions
> San Francisco
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