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Paul Rogers commented on DRILL-5080: ------------------------------------ That is what Rahul has been doing for the last month or so. Also, we are in the process of offering a PR for an internal test framework. Once that is done, we can do a PR for detailed "sub-operator" unit tests to verify many of the code-level bugs described here. In general, we do need a good way to verify such internal bugs: QA can't do it from outside of the product because doing so is like fixing a watch wearing oven mitts... > Create a memory-managed version of the External Sort operator > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: DRILL-5080 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-5080 > Project: Apache Drill > Issue Type: Improvement > Affects Versions: 1.8.0 > Reporter: Paul Rogers > Assignee: Paul Rogers > Labels: ready-to-commit > Fix For: 1.10.0 > > Attachments: ManagedExternalSortDesign.pdf > > > We propose to create a "managed" version of the external sort operator that > works to a clearly-defined memory limit. Attached is a design specification > for the work. > The project will include fixing a number of bugs related to the external > sort, include as sub-tasks of this umbrella task. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346)