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From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: A better way than tweaking NTUP_PER_BUCKET
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In response to Re: A better way than tweaking NTUP_PER_BUCKET  (Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>)
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On 27 January 2014 17:44, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:

> This topic is interesting - we found very bad performance with hashing large
> tables with high work_mem. MergeJoin with quicksort was significantly
> faster.

I've seen this also.

> I didn't deeper research - there is a possibility of virtualization
> overhead.

I took measurements and the effect was repeatable and happened for all
sizes of work_mem, but nothing more to add.

-- Simon Riggs                   http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services

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