Re: [PATCH] Incremental sort (was: PoC: Partial sort)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: James Coleman <jtc331(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Rafia Sabih <rafia(dot)pghackers(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Shaun Thomas <shaun(dot)thomas(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alexander Korotkov <a(dot)korotkov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Incremental sort (was: PoC: Partial sort)
Date: 2020-04-07 03:00:37
Message-ID: 20438.1586228437@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> I came to the same conclusion (that the change in TuplesortMethod
> definiton is the culprit) a while ago and was about to push a fix that
> initialized it correctly in ExecSortInitializeDSM. But I agree reverting
> it back to the old definition is probably better.

Yeah, for the moment. James would like to not have
SORT_TYPE_STILL_IN_PROGRESS be part of the enum at all, I think,
and I can see his point --- but then we need some out-of-band
representation of "worker not done", so I'm not sure there'll be
any net reduction of cruft. Anyway that can be dealt with after
we have a stable buildfarm.

Note also that there's a separate comment-only patch in
<CAAaqYe9qzKbxCvSp3dfLkuS1v8KKnB7kW3z-hZ2jnAQaveSm8w(at)mail(dot)gmail(dot)com>
that shouldn't be forgotten about.

regards, tom lane

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