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

From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Re: Compression and on-disk sorting
Date
Msg-id 20060607172726.GV45331@pervasive.com
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In response to Re: Compression and on-disk sorting  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 04:11:57PM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 09:35 -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> 
> > Would simply changing the ORDER BY to DESC suffice for this? FWIW:
> 
> Try sorting on aid also, both ascneding and descending.
> 
> We need to try lots of tests, not just one thats chosen to show the
> patch in the best light. I want this, but we need to check.

Well, correlation on everything in that table is 1. At this point maybe
it makes more sense to just come up with a different test case, possibly
generate_series and random. Better yet would be if someone came up with
a patch that actually populated the filler field in pgbench. Better
still would be allowing the user to define how large they wanted the
filler field to be...
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