"Luke Lonergan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Two passes is the state-of-the-practice on external disk sorts.
There is no such thing as a fixed number of passes regardless of available memory and size of the data. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match