Re: Compression and on-disk sorting - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: Compression and on-disk sorting
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Msg-id 20060516214615.GM976@svana.org
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In response to Re: Compression and on-disk sorting  ("Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com>)
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On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 12:31:07PM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> Does anyone have time to hack some kind of compression into the on-disk
> sort code just to get some benchmark numbers? Unfortunately, doing so is
> beyond my meager C abilitiy...

I had a look at this. At first glance it doesn't seem too hard, except
the whole logtape process kinda gets in the way. If it wern't for the
mark/restore it'd be trivial. Might take a stab at it some time, if I
can think of a way to handle the seeking...

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