Thanks a lot for the help. Regards, Vaibhav
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 11:07 AM, <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 05:20:02AM +0530, Vaibhav Kaushal wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I was going through some papers related to sorting and since I am > > studying PG code side by side, I wondered how sorting would be done on a > > DB with millions of rows on disk with GBs of data. Since holding > > everything in memory would not be the possible solution, how do we > > actually sort the results in such conditions. > > Look for "external sort" and "external merge" > > Regards > - -- tomás > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFNoUIyBcgs9XrR2kYRAua/AJ4sIw54Mq6EgCsJzGqqmYELLPnSOwCeN0+S > f19mq0vePoCC9rAWLtWpUUE= > =8XVk > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
