Re: PoC: Partial sort

Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-01-23T19:07:00Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 4:07 AM, Tomas Vondra
<tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> The main thing I'm particularly interested in is how much is this coupled
> with the Sort node, and whether it's possible to feed partially sorted
> tuples into other nodes.

That's cool, but I'm particularly interested in seeing Alexander get
back to this because it's an important project on its own. We should
really have this.

-- 
Peter Geoghegan


Commits

  1. Implement Incremental Sort

  2. Improve memory management for external sorts.