On 8 March 2013 11:48, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 07:43:10PM +0000, Dann Corbit wrote: >> I seem to recall that a year or two back some study was done on >> quicksort methodology as used in PostgreSQL. As I recall, the >> algorithm used in PostgreSQL fared well in the tests. > > Well, that's good to hear.
I wouldn't mind taking a look at that. We're not the only ones that use (more or less) that same algorithm. I noticed that Redis does so too, just for example (though they didn't get wise to the problems with the "swap_cnt" pessimisation). -- Regards, Peter Geoghegan -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
