Re: polyphase merge? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: polyphase merge?
Date
Msg-id 1233760266.4500.296.camel@ebony.2ndQuadrant
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: polyphase merge?  (Greg Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
Responses Re: polyphase merge?
List pgsql-hackers
On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 10:55 +0000, Greg Stark wrote:
> Is this basically the same as our current algorithm but without
> multiplexing the tapes onto single files? I have been wondering
> whether we multiplex the tapes any better than filesystems can lay out
> separate files actually.

I don't think you'll be able to do that more efficiently than we already
do. Read the top of tuplesort.c

-- Simon Riggs           www.2ndQuadrant.comPostgreSQL Training, Services and Support



pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: "Kevin Grittner"
Date:
Subject: Re: add_path optimization
Next
From: Greg Stark
Date:
Subject: Re: add_path optimization