Well, that's why I was soliciting developer input as to exactly what goes on with sorts. From what I seem to be hearing, all sorts result in temp files being created and/or used. If that's the case then yes, I can understand the fixation. Of course that opens the door for it being a horrible implementation. If that's not the case, then parallel sorts still seem like a rather obvious route to look into.
Greg On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 14:15, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Greg Copeland wrote: > -- Start of PGP signed section. > > I see. I just always assumed that it would be done as part of table > > space effort as it's such a defacto feature. > > > > I am curious as to why no one has commented on the other rather obvious > > performance enhancement which was brought up in this thread. Allowing > > for parallel sorting seems rather obvious and is a common enhancement > > yet seems to of been completely dismissed as people seem to be fixated > > on I/O. Go figure. > > We think we are fixated on I/O because we think that is where the delay > is. Is there a reason we shouldn't think that? > > -- > Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 > + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road > + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073
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