Re: [HACKERS] A Better External Sort?

From: Michael Stone <mstone+postgres(at)mathom(dot)us>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] A Better External Sort?
Date: 2005-10-03 21:53:32
Message-ID: 20051003215332.GS2241@mathom.us
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On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 01:34:01PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> >Realistically, you can't do better than about 25MB/s on a
>> > single-threaded I/O on current Linux machines,
>>
>> What on earth gives you that idea? Did you drop a zero?
>
>Nope, LOTS of testing, at OSDL, GreenPlum and Sun. For comparison, A
>Big-Name Proprietary Database doesn't get much more than that either.

You seem to be talking about database IO, which isn't what you said.

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