From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Cc: Jeffrey W. Baker <jwbaker@acm.org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Guy Thornley <guy@esphion.com>
Cc: Steve Poe <spoe@sfnet.cc>
Cc: Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Read/Write block sizes
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 12:45:03 -0700
Message-ID: <200508251245.03473.josh@agliodbs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1124864572.11270.16.camel@noodles>
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<1124864572.11270.16.camel@noodles>
Jeff,
> Ask me sometime about my replacement for GNU sort. It uses the same
> sorting algorithm, but it's an order of magnitude faster due to better
> I/O strategy. Someday, in my infinite spare time, I hope to demonstrate
> that kind of improvement with a patch to pg.
Since we desperately need some improvements in sort performance, I do hope
you follow up on this.
--
--Josh
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco
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