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Teach tuplesort.c about "top N" sorting, in which only the first N tuples

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need be returned.  We keep a heap of the current best N tuples and sift-up
new tuples into it as we scan the input.  For M input tuples this means
only about M*log(N) comparisons instead of M*log(M), not to mention a lot
less workspace when N is small --- avoiding spill-to-disk for large M
is actually the most attractive thing about it.  Patch includes planner
and executor support for invoking this facility in ORDER BY ... LIMIT
queries.  Greg Stark, with some editorialization by moi.
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Tom Lane
2007-05-04 01:13:45 +00:00
parent 0fef38da21
commit d26559dbf3
13 changed files with 465 additions and 59 deletions
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@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
* Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2007, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
* Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
*
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/include/utils/tuplesort.h,v 1.25 2007/01/09 02:14:16 tgl Exp $
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/include/utils/tuplesort.h,v 1.26 2007/05/04 01:13:45 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ extern Tuplesortstate *tuplesort_begin_datum(Oid datumType,
Oid sortOperator, bool nullsFirstFlag,
int workMem, bool randomAccess);
extern void tuplesort_set_bound(Tuplesortstate *state, int64 bound);
extern void tuplesort_puttupleslot(Tuplesortstate *state,
TupleTableSlot *slot);
extern void tuplesort_putindextuple(Tuplesortstate *state, IndexTuple tuple);