Re: [HACKERS] sorting big tables :(

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org (The Hermit Hacker)
Cc: tom(at)sdf(dot)com, mimo(at)interdata(dot)com(dot)pl, hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org (PostgreSQL-development)
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] sorting big tables :(
Date: 1998-05-20 17:27:04
Message-ID: 199805201727.NAA17858@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Okay, then we have two different understandings of this. My
> understanding was that the 10% reserve gave the OS a 'temp area' in which
> to move blocks to/from so that it could defrag on the fly...
>
> Am CC'ng this into freebsd-hackers(at)freebsd(dot)org for a "third
> opinion"...am willing to admit I'm wrong *grin*

You are wrong.

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