Re: Read/Write block sizes - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Ron
Subject Re: Read/Write block sizes
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Msg-id 6.2.3.4.0.20050825162308.05dbf298@pop.earthlink.net
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In response to Re: Read/Write block sizes  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
List pgsql-performance
At 03:45 PM 8/25/2005, Josh Berkus wrote:
>Jeff,
>
> > Ask me sometime about my replacement for GNU sort. Â It uses the same
> > sorting algorithm, but it's an order of magnitude faster due to better
> > I/O strategy. Â Someday, in my infinite spare time, I hope to demonstrate
> > that kind of improvement with a patch to pg.
>
>Since we desperately need some improvements in sort performance, I do hope
>you follow up on this.
>
>--
>--Josh

I'll generalize that.  IMO we desperately need
any and all improvements in IO performance.  Even
more so than we need improvements in sorting or sorting IO performance.

Ron



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