Re: some aspects of our qsort might not be ideal

From: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, John Naylor <john(dot)naylor(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: some aspects of our qsort might not be ideal
Date: 2022-06-23 15:08:07
Message-ID: CAEze2Wj8Za=p+sOW=w_rEYnSykmeFoLo9+rxyPyahBE0qRz-eA@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, 23 Jun 2022 at 17:04, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 7:51 AM Matthias van de Meent
> <boekewurm+postgres(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > I think that mostly has to do with reliability / stability of ORDER BY
> > in combination with LIMIT and OFFSET, even though right now we cannot
> > fully guarantee such stability due to unstable results from underlying
> > plan nodes.
>
> The current qsort isn't stable.

Then I misunderstood Robert's comment, thanks for correcting me.

- Matthias

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