Bump<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 9:09 PM, David Pennell <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:dpennell@good-cloud.com">dpennell@good-cloud.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I&#39;m running some experiments with a 1B row fact table (10 columns).  <div><br></div><div>- How can I tell if a column is sorted? </div><div><br></div><div>- If I generate files in sorted order and use binary bulk loading, will monetdb consider the column sorted?  If not, can I force it?</div>

<div><br></div><div>I&#39;ve been reading code, but understanding all the assignments to bn-&gt;tsorted is going to take a while.  I get the general theme of setting tsorted during bat operations, but I&#39;ve been unsuccessful in finding where it is initialized when a column is first accessed.</div>

<div><br></div><div>TIA,</div><div>-david</div>
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