Re: [HACKERS] Open 7.4 items

From: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Open 7.4 items
Date: 2003-10-06 00:22:38
Message-ID: 1065399757.466.24.camel@tokyo
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On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 19:58, Tom Lane wrote:
> That's a fairly useless place to put it, though, since someone would
> only think to look at sort_mem if they already had a clue. It should
> be mentioned under bulk data load (in performance tips chapter)

Attached is a doc patch that does this. The way I've worded it may not
be the best, though.

> and perhaps also in dump/restore procedures.

It's already mentioned there.

Should we also suggest turning off fsync when doing restores?

(BTW, is there a reason the docs consistently call them "B-tree
indexes", not "B+-tree indexes"?)

-Neil

Attachment Content-Type Size
sort_mem_restore_docs-2.patch text/x-patch 3.8 KB

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