On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 12:39 PM, Peter Geoghegan <p...@heroku.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 12:08 AM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinn...@iki.fi> wrote: >>> I attach a patch that changes how we maintain the heap invariant >>> during tuplesort merging. > >> Nice! > > Thanks!
BTW, the way that k-way merging is made more efficient by this approach makes the case for replacement selection even weaker than it was just before we almost killed it. I hate to say it, but I have to wonder if we shouldn't get rid of the new-to-9.6 replacement_sort_tuples because of this, and completely kill replacement selection. I'm not going to go on about it, but that seems sensible to me. -- Peter Geoghegan -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
