Re: [PERFORM] A Better External Sort?

["Dann Corbit" <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com>]

I see the following routines that seem to be related to sorting.

If I were to examine these routines to consider ways to improve it, what
routines should I key in on?  I am guessing that tuplesort.c is the hub
of activity for database sorting.

Directory of U:\postgresql-snapshot\src\backend\access\nbtree

08/11/2005  06:22 AM            24,968 nbtsort.c
               1 File(s)         24,968 bytes

 Directory of U:\postgresql-snapshot\src\backend\executor

03/16/2005  01:38 PM             7,418 nodeSort.c
               1 File(s)          7,418 bytes

 Directory of U:\postgresql-snapshot\src\backend\utils\sort

09/23/2005  08:36 AM            67,585 tuplesort.c
               1 File(s)         67,585 bytes

 Directory of U:\postgresql-snapshot\src\bin\pg_dump

06/29/2005  08:03 PM            31,620 pg_dump_sort.c
               1 File(s)         31,620 bytes

 Directory of U:\postgresql-snapshot\src\port

07/27/2005  09:03 PM             5,077 qsort.c
               1 File(s)          5,077 bytes