Re: Compression and on-disk sorting

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Zeugswetter Andreas DCP SD <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at>, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Rod Taylor <pg(at)rbt(dot)ca>, "Bort, Paul" <pbort(at)tmwsystems(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Compression and on-disk sorting
Date: 2006-05-26 16:35:36
Message-ID: 26799.1148661336@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> writes:
> Something else worth mentioning is that sort performance is worse with
> larger work_mem for all cases except the old HEAD, prior to the
> tuplesort.c changes. It looks like whatever was done to fix that will
> need to be adjusted/rethought pending the outcome of using compression.

Please clarify. What are you comparing here exactly, and what cases did
you test?

regards, tom lane

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