X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5306BD9AC5; Mon, 3 Oct 2005 18:55:48 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 45032-10; Mon, 3 Oct 2005 21:55:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from davinci.ethosmedia.com (server227.ethosmedia.com [209.128.84.227]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0D1BD7E1D; Mon, 3 Oct 2005 18:55:36 -0300 (ADT) X-EthosMedia-Virus-Scanned: no infections found Received: from [64.81.245.111] (account josh@agliodbs.com HELO temoku.sf.agliodbs.com) by davinci.ethosmedia.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP id 8192646; Mon, 03 Oct 2005 14:58:03 -0700 From: Josh Berkus Reply-To: josh@agliodbs.com Organization: Aglio Database Solutions To: Michael Stone Subject: Re: [HACKERS] A Better External Sort? Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 14:59:30 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, pgsql-performance@postgresql.org References: <31833713.1128111650174.JavaMail.root@elwamui-polski.atl.sa.earthlink.net> <200510031334.02030.josh@agliodbs.com> <20051003215332.GS2241@mathom.us> In-Reply-To: <20051003215332.GS2241@mathom.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510031459.30802.josh@agliodbs.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.046 required=5 tests=[AWL=-0.004, FORGED_RCVD_HELO=0.05] X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200510/32 X-Sequence-Number: 14800 Michael, > >Nope, LOTS of testing, at OSDL, GreenPlum and Sun. For comparison, A > >Big-Name Proprietary Database doesn't get much more than that either. > > You seem to be talking about database IO, which isn't what you said. Right, well, it was what I meant. I failed to specify, that's all. -- --Josh Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco