Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Teach tuplesort.c about "top N" sorting, in which only the first

From: Jim Nasby <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Teach tuplesort.c about "top N" sorting, in which only the first
Date: 2007-05-09 15:55:12
Message-ID: 32346E80-18A2-4FA1-8114-33F74AD7C660@decibel.org
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On May 8, 2007, at 2:24 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Speaking of which, it might be interesting to actually show these
> values
> in the stats collector. I was thinking three cols for each database
> (probably the best level?) that counts each of those three
> counters. If
> you have a lot of sorts (percentage-wise) spilling to disk, it is
> often
> something you want to investigate, so exposing it that way seems
> like a
> good thing.

What 3 columns? In-memory sorts, on-disk sorts, and on-disk size?
(Sum of how much spilled to disk).

I agree that per-database makes sense, though I'd settle for per-
cluster.
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Jim Nasby jim(at)nasby(dot)net
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