Re: Polyphase merge is obsolete

Jaime Casanova <jcasanov@systemguards.com.ec>

From: Jaime Casanova <jcasanov@systemguards.com.ec>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Cc: vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>
Date: 2021-09-11T06:35:27Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 06:04:14PM +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 14/07/2021 15:12, vignesh C wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 3:49 AM Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> wrote:
> > > Here's an updated version that fixes one bug:
> > > 
> > > The CFBot was reporting a failure on the FreeBSD system [1]. It turned
> > > out to be an out-of-memory issue caused by an underflow bug in the
> > > calculation of the size of the tape read buffer size. With a small
> > > work_mem size, the memory left for tape buffers was negative, and that
> > > wrapped around to a very large number. I believe that was not caught by
> > > the other systems, because the other ones had enough memory for the
> > > incorrectly-sized buffers anyway. That was the case on my laptop at
> > > least. It did cause a big slowdown in the 'tuplesort' regression test
> > > though, which I hadn't noticed.
> > > 
> > > The fix for that bug is here as a separate patch for easier review, but
> > > I'll squash it before committing.
> > 
> > The patch does not apply on Head anymore, could you rebase and post a
> > patch. I'm changing the status to "Waiting for Author".
> 
> Here's a rebased version. I also squashed that little bug fix from previous
> patch set.
> 

Hi,

This patch does not apply, can you submit a rebased version?

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Jaime Casanova
Director de Servicios Profesionales
SystemGuards - Consultores de PostgreSQL



Commits

  1. Fix and clarify function comment on LogicalTapeSetCreate.

  2. Refactor LogicalTapeSet/LogicalTape interface.

  3. Replace polyphase merge algorithm with a simple balanced k-way merge.

  4. logtape.c: do not preallocate for tapes when sorting