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From: Jeffrey W. Baker <jwbaker@acm.org>
To: josh@agliodbs.com
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] A Better External Sort?
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 11:15:41 -0700
Message-ID: <1128017741.11474.13.camel@noodles> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200509291103.27344.josh@agliodbs.com>
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On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 11:03 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Jeff,
> 
> > Josh, do you happen to know how many passes are needed in the multiphase
> > merge on your 60GB table?
> 
> No, any idea how to test that?

I would just run it under the profiler and see how many times
beginmerge() is called.

-jwb




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