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