Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Was this resolved?
>
> I tweaked the code some, and am waiting for retest results from Tatsuo.
>
> I think the poor results he is seeing might be platform-dependent; on
> my machine current code seems to be faster than 6.5.* ... but on the
> other hand I don't have the disk space to run a multi-gig sort test.
>
> Can anyone else take the time to compare speed of large sorts between
> 6.5.* and current code?
Is there a howto for running an additional development backend ?
If there is, I could test it on a dual P!!!500MHz IBM Netfinity
M20 with 1GB memory and >30 GB RAID5 disks.
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Hannu