Re: Ordered Append Node

From: Florian Weimer <fweimer(at)bfk(dot)de>
To: Markus Schiltknecht <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch>
Cc: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Ordered Append Node
Date: 2007-11-23 09:30:08
Message-ID: 823auxpavz.fsf@mid.bfk.de
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* Markus Schiltknecht:

>> You need a priority queue to figure out from which tape (partition)
>> you need to remove the next tuple.
>
> And why do you need lots of heap memory to do that? Anything wrong
> with the zipper approach I've outlined upthread?

"heap" == "priority queue" here, I guess. Looking at your zipper
again, it's actually an implementation of a heap.

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