Re: Compression and on-disk sorting

From: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
To: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
Cc: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Rod Taylor <pg(at)rbt(dot)ca>, "Bort, Paul" <pbort(at)tmwsystems(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Compression and on-disk sorting
Date: 2006-05-17 16:55:53
Message-ID: 87k68kr3om.fsf@stark.xeocode.com
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"Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> writes:

> Only if those spindles weren't all in a single RAID array and if we went
> through the trouble of creating all the machinery so you could tell
> PostgreSQL where all those spindles were mounted in the filesystem.

I think the way you do this is simply by documenting that the admin should
create precisely one temp area per physical spindle (or raid array).

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greg

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