In the last episode (Dec 18), Markus Fischer said:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:38:14AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote :
> > Raising sort_buffer_size and join_buffer_size may also help if your
> > queries pull a lot of records.
>
> From what I read from the manual, sort_buffer_size is only used
> for the isamchk tools, isn't it? I've adapted join_buffer_size
> though; thanks.
It's used for any sorting:
* `sort_buffer_size' Each thread that needs to do a sort allocates a
buffer of this size. Increase this value for faster `ORDER BY' or
`GROUP BY' operations. *Note Temporary files::.
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