Re: [HACKERS] A Better External Sort?

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Ron Peacetree <rjpeace(at)earthlink(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] A Better External Sort?
Date: 2005-10-01 15:19:26
Message-ID: 433EA8FE.8050103@dunslane.net
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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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