Re: [PATCH] Incremental sort (was: PoC: Partial sort)

Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, James Coleman <jtc331@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Rafia Sabih <rafia.pghackers@gmail.com>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Shaun Thomas <shaun.thomas@2ndquadrant.com>, Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>, Alexander Korotkov <a.korotkov@postgrespro.ru>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>
Date: 2020-05-10T01:48:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 3:19 PM Tomas Vondra
<tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> I'm generally OK with most of this - I'd probably keep the single-line
> format, but I don't feel very strongly about that and if others think
> using two lines is better ...
>
> Barring objections I'll get this polished and pushed soon-ish (say,
> early next week).

I see something about starting a new thread on the Open Items page.
Please CC me on this.

Speaking in my capacity as an RMT member: Glad to see that you plan to
close this item out next week. (I had planned on giving you a nudge
about this, but it looks like I don't really have to now.)

Thanks
-- 
Peter Geoghegan



Commits

  1. Further adjustments to Hashagg EXPLAIN ANALYZE output

  2. Rework EXPLAIN format for incremental sort

  3. Fix typos and improve incremental sort comments

  4. Stabilize incremental_sort tests

  5. Minor improvements in Incremental Sort explain

  6. Consider Incremental Sort paths at additional places

  7. Fix representation of SORT_TYPE_STILL_IN_PROGRESS.

  8. Fix failures in incremental_sort due to number of workers

  9. Fix show_incremental_sort_info with force_parallel_mode

  10. Implement Incremental Sort

  11. Fix handling of "Subplans Removed" field in EXPLAIN output.

  12. Fix EXPLAIN (SETTINGS) to follow policy about when to print empty fields.

  13. Ensure plpgsql result tuples have the right composite type marking.

  14. Propagate sort instrumentation from workers back to leader.

  15. Make new regression test case parallel-safe, and improve its output.

  16. Push limit through subqueries to underlying sort, where possible.

  17. Fix inappropriate printing of never-measured times in EXPLAIN.

  18. Fix some infelicities in EXPLAIN output for parallel query plans.