Re: [HACKERS] sort on huge table

>Now that's a close to linear as you are going to get.  Pretty good I think:
>a sort of one billion rows in half an hour.

Oops! It's not one billion but 10 millions. Sorry.

1 million tuples    1:31
2            4:24
3            7:27
4            11:11  <-- 970MB
5            14:01  <-- 1.1GB (segmented files)
6            18:31
7            22:24
8            24:36
9            28:12
10            32:14
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Tatsuo Ishii