Re: Replacement Selection - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Replacement Selection
Date
Msg-id 15888.1196096446@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Replacement Selection  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>)
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> mac_man2005@hotmail.it wrote:
>> Unfortunately I'm lost into the code... any good soul helping me to 
>> understand what should be the precise part to be modified?

> I think you should print the file and read it several times until you
> understand what's going on.  Then you can start thinking where and how
> to modify it.

Also, go find a copy of Knuth volume 3, because a whole lot of the
comments assume you've read Knuth's discussion of external sorting.
        regards, tom lane


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