On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com> wrote:
> In principle, I have no problem with doing that. Through testing, I
> cannot see any actual upside, though. Perhaps I just missed something.
> Even 8MB is enough to avoid the multipass merge in the event of a
> surprisingly high volume of data (my work laptop is elsewhere, so I
> don't have my notes on this in front of me, but I figured out the
> crossover point for a couple of cases).
I'd be interested in seeing this analysis in some detail.
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