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

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Compression and on-disk sorting
Date
Msg-id 200605181750.k4IHo6m27691@candle.pha.pa.us
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: Compression and on-disk sorting  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-hackers
Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Uh, TODO already has:
> 
> >         o %Add a GUC variable to control the tablespace for temporary objects
> >           and sort files
> 
> >           It could start with a random tablespace from a supplied list and
> >           cycle through the list.
> 
> > Do we need to add to this?
> 
> The list bit strikes me as lily-gilding, or at least designing features
> well beyond proven need.

I have seen other databases do the round-robin idea, so it is worth
testing.

--  Bruce Momjian   http://candle.pha.pa.us EnterpriseDB    http://www.enterprisedb.com
 + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +


pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Tom Lane
Date:
Subject: Re: Compression and on-disk sorting
Next
From: "Marc G. Fournier"
Date:
Subject: Re: [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS bad?