Re: Polyphase merge is obsolete

On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 2:54 PM, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> wrote:
> I noticed that this is in the upcoming CF 1 for v11. I'm signed up to review.
>
> I'd like to point out that replacement selection is also obsolete,
> which is something I brought up recently [1]. I don't actually have
> any feature-driven reason to want to kill replacement selection - it's
> just an annoyance at this point. I do think that RS is more deserving
> of being killed than Polyphase merge, because it actually costs users
> something to continue to support it. The replacement_sort_tuples GUC
> particularly deserves to be removed.
>
> It would be nice if killing RS was put in scope here. I'd appreciate
> it, at least, since it would simplify the heap routines noticeably.
> The original analysis that led to adding replacement_sort_tuples was
> based on certain performance characteristics of merging that have
> since changed by quite a bit, due to our work for v10.

These are separate topics.  They should each be discussed on their own
thread.  Please don't hijack this thread to talk about something else.

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