Re: Using quicksort for every external sort run

Hi,

On Mon, 2015-12-28 at 15:03 -0800, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com> wrote:
> > BTW, I'm not necessarily determined to make the new special-purpose
> > allocator work exactly as proposed. It seemed useful to prioritize
> > simplicity, and currently so there is one big "huge palloc()" with
> > which we blow our memory budget, and that's it. However, I could
> > probably be more clever about "freeing ranges" initially preserved for
> > a now-exhausted tape. That kind of thing.
> 
> Attached is a revision that significantly overhauls the memory patch,
> with several smaller changes.

I was thinking about running some benchmarks on this patch, but the
thread is pretty huge so I want to make sure I'm not missing something
and this is indeed the most recent version.

Is that the case?

regards

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