Re: would hw acceleration help postgres (databases in general) ?

On Dec 10, 2010, at 6:18 PM, Jeff Janes wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Hamza Bin Sohail <hsohail(at)purdue(dot)edu> wrote:
>>
>> Hello hackers,
>>
>> I think i'm at the right place to ask this question.
>>
>> Based on your experience and the fact that you have written the Postgres code,
>> can you tell what a rough break-down - in your opinion - is for the time the
>> database spends time just "fetching and writing " stuff to memory and the
>> actual computation.
>
> The database is a general purpose tool. Pick a bottleneck you wish to have,
> and probably someone uses it in a way that causes that bottleneck to occur.

A common bottleneck we run into is sorting of text data. Unfortunately, I doubt that a GPU would be able to help with that.
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