Re: Threaded Sorting

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Bingo!  Want to increase sorting performance, give it more I/O
> > bandwidth, and it will take 1/100th of the time to do threading.
> 
> > Added to TODO:
> >     * Allow sorting to use multiple work directories
> 
> Yeah, I like that.  Actually it should apply to all temp files not only
> sorting.
> 
> A crude hack would be to allow there to be multiple pg_temp_NNN/
> subdirectories (read symlinks) in a database, and then the code would
> automatically switch among these.

TODO updated:
* Allow sorting/temp files to use multiple work directories     

Tom, what temp files do we use that aren't for sorting;  I forgot.       
> Probably a cleaner idea would be to somehow integrate this with
> tablespace management --- if you could mark some tablespaces as intended
> for temp stuff, the system could round-robin among those as it creates
> temp files and/or temp tables.

Yes, tablespaces would be the place for this.

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