Horton

Re: [HACKERS] sorting big tables :(

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: scrappy@hub.org (The Hermit Hacker)
Cc: tom@sdf.com, mimo@interdata.com.pl, hackers@postgreSQL.org (PostgreSQL-development)
Date: 1998-05-20T17:27:04Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> 	Okay, then we have two different understandings of this.  My
> understanding was that the 10% reserve gave the OS a 'temp area' in which
> to move blocks to/from so that it could defrag on the fly...
> 
> 	Am CC'ng this into freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org for a "third
> opinion"...am willing to admit I'm wrong *grin*

You are wrong.

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