Re: Sorting performance vs. MySQL - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alban Hertroys
Subject Re: Sorting performance vs. MySQL
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In response to Re: Sorting performance vs. MySQL  (Yang Zhang <yanghatespam@gmail.com>)
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On 22 Feb 2010, at 19:35, Yang Zhang wrote:

> I also wouldn't have imagined an external merge-sort as being very


Where's that external merge-sort coming from? Can you show an explain analyze?

If your work-mem is too low there's a good chance that Postgres has to use your disks for sorting, which will obviously
bequite slow. 

Alban Hertroys

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