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

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Incremental sort (was: PoC: Partial sort)
Date: 2020-04-06 22:34:04
Message-ID: 25993.1586212444@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 05:51:43PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Well, it's *less* unhappy. thorntail is showing that the number of
>> workers field is not stable; that will need to be masked.

> Yeah, I've already pushed a fix for that. But there seems to be another
> failure in th explain output. Looking.

I'm kind of unimpressed with that fix, because it guarantees that if
there's any problem with more than 2 workers, this test will never
find it. I think you should do what I said and arrange to replace
the number-of-workers output with "N".

regards, tom lane

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