Re: Progress on fast path sorting, btree index creation time

From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Peter Geoghegan <peter(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Progress on fast path sorting, btree index creation time
Date: 2011-12-30 19:46:24
Message-ID: CAHyXU0zS=Y3o2b7ZF-FvD_kzoLZAUzYx=KNFTwLMZrpU+tU5Wg@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Peter Geoghegan <peter(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> * A spreadsheet that shows the results of re-running my earlier heap
> tuple sorting benchmark with this new patch. The improvement in the
> query that orders by 2 columns is all that is pertinent there, when
> considering the value of (1) and the sense in standing still for
> controversy A.
>
> * A spreadsheet that shows the difference in index creation times,
> generated with the help of the new python script.

very nice. let me save everyone the effort of opening his
spreadsheets (which by the way both show 'HEAD/unoptimized' --
probably not what you meant): he's showing a consistent ~50% reduction
in running time of sort driven queries -- that's money.

merlin

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