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From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Ron Peacetree <rjpeace@earthlink.net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] A Better External Sort?
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 11:19:26 -0400
Message-ID: <433EA8FE.8050103@dunslane.net> (raw)
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Ron Peacetree wrote:

>The good news is all this means it's easy to demonstrate that we can
>improve the performance of our sorting functionality.
>
>Assuming we get the abyssmal physical IO performance fixed...
>(because until we do, _nothing_ is going to help us as much)
>
>  
>

I for one would be paying more attention if such a demonstration were 
forthcoming, in the form of a viable patch and some benchmark results.

cheers

andrew



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