Re: A qsort template

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, John Naylor <john(dot)naylor(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Robert Haas <rhaas(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: A qsort template
Date: 2022-04-02 23:11:51
Message-ID: 20220402231151.635ohpc4q3gppdzb@alap3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2022-04-03 09:45:13 +1200, Thomas Munro wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 3, 2022 at 9:03 AM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> > It's certainly not pretty that copytup_cluster() can use SortTuples without
> > actually using SortTuples. Afaics it basically only computes isnull1/datum1 if
> > state->indexInfo->ii_IndexAttrNumbers[0] == 0.
>
> I think we just need to decide up front if we're in a situation that
> can't provide datum1/isnull1 (in this case because it's an expression
> index), and skip the optimised paths. Here's an experimental patch...
> still looking into whether there are more cases like this...

That's a lot of redundant checks. How about putting all the checks for
optimized paths into one if (state->sortKeys && !state->disable_datum1)?

I'm a bit worried that none of the !ubsan tests failed on this...

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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