Re: Sorting performance vs. MySQL - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: Sorting performance vs. MySQL
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In response to Re: Sorting performance vs. MySQL  (Yang Zhang <yanghatespam@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Sorting performance vs. MySQL  (Yang Zhang <yanghatespam@gmail.com>)
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On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Yang Zhang <yanghatespam@gmail.com> wrote:
> This isn't some microbenchmark. This is part of our actual analytical
> application. We're running large-scale graph partitioning algorithms.

It's important to see how it runs if you can fit more / most of the
data set into memory by cranking up work_mem to something really big
(like a gigabyte or two) and if the query planner can switch to some
sort of hash algorithm.

Also, can you cluster the table on transactionid ?

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