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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Using quicksort for every external sort run
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Msg-id 17309.1440078887@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Using quicksort for every external sort run  (Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>)
Responses Re: Using quicksort for every external sort run  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>)
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Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu> writes:
> Alternately, has anyone tested whether Timsort would work well?

I think that was proposed a few years ago and did not look so good
in simple testing.
        regards, tom lane

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