From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Steven M. Wheeler <swheeler@sabre.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@hub.org
Subject: Re: [SQL] Questions about vacuum analyze
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 12:14:28 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <199910111614.MAA03460@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8117.939656713@sss.pgh.pa.us>
> Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > The thing I liked about the existing algorithm is that it did the
> > sorting without the page faulting/thrashing caused by many sort
> > algorithms.
>
> Yes, I think we want to stick with the basic architecture of an
> initial replacement-selection filter operating in limited memory,
> followed by merge passes. I'm just thinking about how to reduce
> the amount of disk space chewed up by intermediate merge results...
Wonder how our create index does it. Seems it is must be similar.
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