At 03:45 PM 8/25/2005, Josh Berkus wrote:
Jeff,
> Ask me sometime about my replacement for GNU sort. Â It uses the same
> sorting algorithm, but it's an order of magnitude faster due to better
> I/O strategy. Â Someday, in my infinite spare time, I hope to demonstrate
> that kind of improvement with a patch to pg.
Since we desperately need some improvements in sort performance, I do hope
you follow up on this.
--
--Josh
I'll generalize that. IMO we desperately need
any and all improvements in IO performance. Even
more so than we need improvements in sorting or sorting IO performance.
Ron
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