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

From Greg Stark
Subject Re: Compression and on-disk sorting
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Msg-id 87k68kr3om.fsf@stark.xeocode.com
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In response to Re: Compression and on-disk sorting  ("Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com>)
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"Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com> writes:

> Only if those spindles weren't all in a single RAID array and if we went
> through the trouble of creating all the machinery so you could tell
> PostgreSQL where all those spindles were mounted in the filesystem.

I think the way you do this is simply by documenting that the admin should
create precisely one temp area per physical spindle (or raid array).


-- 
greg



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