Thread: Re: [HACKERS] Open 7.4 items

On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 19:58, Tom Lane wrote:
> That's a fairly useless place to put it, though, since someone would
> only think to look at sort_mem if they already had a clue.  It should
> be mentioned under bulk data load (in performance tips chapter)

Attached is a doc patch that does this. The way I've worded it may not
be the best, though.

>  and perhaps also in dump/restore procedures.

It's already mentioned there.

Should we also suggest turning off fsync when doing restores?

(BTW, is there a reason the docs consistently call them "B-tree
indexes", not "B+-tree indexes"?)

-Neil

Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:
> (BTW, is there a reason the docs consistently call them "B-tree
> indexes", not "B+-tree indexes"?)

The latter might be technically more correct, but most people are going
to think it's a typo.  I think B-tree is fine for the purposes of our docs.

            regards, tom lane

Patch applied.  Thanks.

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Neil Conway wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 19:58, Tom Lane wrote:
> > That's a fairly useless place to put it, though, since someone would
> > only think to look at sort_mem if they already had a clue.  It should
> > be mentioned under bulk data load (in performance tips chapter)
>
> Attached is a doc patch that does this. The way I've worded it may not
> be the best, though.
>
> >  and perhaps also in dump/restore procedures.
>
> It's already mentioned there.
>
> Should we also suggest turning off fsync when doing restores?
>
> (BTW, is there a reason the docs consistently call them "B-tree
> indexes", not "B+-tree indexes"?)
>
> -Neil
>

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