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Glossary: PostgreSQL Beyond the Basics

Sort Method (quicksort, external merge)

Also written: external merge, quicksort, Sort

A Sort node's report of how it sorted. `quicksort Memory:` means it sorted in memory, and `external merge Disk:` means it spilled to temporary files because `work_mem` was too small.

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