Re: Threaded Sorting

Greg Copeland wrote:
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> I see.  I just always assumed that it would be done as part of table
> space effort as it's such a defacto feature.
> 
> I am curious as to why no one has commented on the other rather obvious
> performance enhancement which was brought up in this thread.  Allowing
> for parallel sorting seems rather obvious and is a common enhancement
> yet seems to of been completely dismissed as people seem to be fixated
> on I/O.  Go figure. 

We think we are fixated on I/O because we think that is where the delay
is.  Is there a reason we shouldn't think that?

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