* Markus Schiltknecht: > Florian Weimer wrote: >> I think you need it because there are potentially many input types.
Eh, "tapes". > Given the partitioning case, I'd expect all rows to have an equal > tuple descriptor. Maybe this is a matter of what to optimize, then? > > Could you elaborate on what use case you have in mind? You need a priority queue to figure out from which tape (partition) you need to remove the next tuple. -- Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
