Re: qsort again (was Re: [PERFORM] Strange Create Index

Markus Schaber <schabi@logix-tt.com>

From: Markus Schaber <schabi@logix-tt.com>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2006-02-16T13:44:45Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-performance
Hi, Ron,

Ron wrote:

> ...and of course if you know enough about the data to be sorted so as to
> constrain it appropriately, one should use a non comparison based O(N)
> sorting algorithm rather than any of the general comparison based
> O(NlgN) methods.

Sounds interesting, could you give us some pointers (names, URLs,
papers) to such algorithms?

Thanks a lot,
Markus



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