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

On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 10:50:12PM +0200, Tomas Vondra wrote:
>On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 03:18:36PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
>>Checking if it's possible to address this Opened Item before 13b1.
>>
>>https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_13_Open_Items
>>consistency of explain output: two spaces, equals vs colons, semicolons (incremental sort)
>>
>
>Yes. Now that the other items related to incremental sort are fixed,
>this is next on my TODO.
>

OK, so aside from the typo/comment fixes, the proposed changes to the
explain format are:

  - two spaces to separate groups of related values
  - use colons rather than equals for fields
  - don't use semicolons
  - split full-groups and prefix-groups to separate lines

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).


regards

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