| From: | Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Greg S <stark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
| Subject: | Re: Using quicksort for every external sort run |
| Date: | 2015-12-18 18:55:21 |
| Message-ID: | CAM3SWZQsQbGKaxz3n9SSfkR+tD-i-C2bnzHxLMQmyC6s9+z3oQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Anyway, I agree with Jeff that this terminology shouldn't creep into
> function and structure member names.
Okay.
> I don't really like the term "memory pool" either. We're growing a
> bunch of little special-purpose allocators all over the code base
> because of palloc's somewhat dubious performance and memory usage
> characteristics, but if any of those are referred to as memory pools
> it has thus far escaped my notice.
It's a widely accepted term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_pool
But, sure, I'm not attached to it.
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Peter Geoghegan
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