On 15/06/10 06:21, Eliot Gable wrote:
> Just curious if this would apply to PostgreSQL:
> http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1814327
>
> <http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1814327>Now that I've read it, it seems
> like a no-brainer. So, how does PostgreSQL deal with the different latencies
> involved in accessing data on disk for searches / sorts vs. accessing data
> in memory? Is it allocated in a similar way as described in the article such
> that disk access is reduced to a minimum?
I don't think we have any binary heap structures that are large enough
for this to matter. We use a binary heap when merging tapes in the
tuplesort code, for example, but that's tiny.
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Heikki Linnakangas
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