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

On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 11:00:37PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>Tomas Vondra  writes:
>> I came to the same conclusion (that the change in TuplesortMethod
>> definiton is the culprit) a while ago and was about to push a fix that
>> initialized it correctly in ExecSortInitializeDSM. But I agree reverting
>> it back to the old definition is probably better.
>
>Yeah, for the moment.  James would like to not have
>SORT_TYPE_STILL_IN_PROGRESS be part of the enum at all, I think,
>and I can see his point --- but then we need some out-of-band
>representation of "worker not done", so I'm not sure there'll be
>any net reduction of cruft.  Anyway that can be dealt with after
>we have a stable buildfarm.
>

Agreed.

>Note also that there's a separate comment-only patch in
>
>that shouldn't be forgotten about.
>

OK, I'll take care of that tomorrow. I have two smaller patches to
commit in the incremental sort patchset, so I'll add it to that.


regards

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