Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> writes: > Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. It seems premature to worry > about it now.
Um, well, this whole thread is about how many potential optimizations we're willing to toss aside to guarantee a particular behavior that the current implementation has. So I think it's all about worrying about the future. One issue that just came to mind is what effect such a promise would have on attempts to multi-thread the backend. I'm on record as being dubious about the pain-to-reward ratio of any such attempt. But if we ever do try it, the more constraints we've put on the order of row processing, the less potential benefit there will be. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers