-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 05:20:02AM +0530, Vaibhav Kaushal wrote: > Hello all, > > I was going through some papers related to sorting and since I am > studying PG code side by side, I wondered how sorting would be done on a > DB with millions of rows on disk with GBs of data. Since holding > everything in memory would not be the possible solution, how do we > actually sort the results in such conditions.
Look for "external sort" and "external merge" Regards - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFNoUIyBcgs9XrR2kYRAua/AJ4sIw54Mq6EgCsJzGqqmYELLPnSOwCeN0+S f19mq0vePoCC9rAWLtWpUUE= =8XVk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
