On Dec 10, 2010, at 6:18 PM, Jeff Janes wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Hamza Bin Sohail <hsoh...@purdue.edu> wrote: >> >> Hello hackers, >> >> I think i'm at the right place to ask this question. >> >> Based on your experience and the fact that you have written the Postgres >> code, >> can you tell what a rough break-down - in your opinion - is for the time the >> database spends time just "fetching and writing " stuff to memory and the >> actual computation. > > The database is a general purpose tool. Pick a bottleneck you wish to have, > and probably someone uses it in a way that causes that bottleneck to occur.
A common bottleneck we run into is sorting of text data. Unfortunately, I doubt that a GPU would be able to help with that. -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect j...@nasby.net 512.569.9461 (cell) http://jim.nasby.net -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
