Improve the testability of the merge-sort logic.

FossilOrigin-Name: b5179baf87aa00ed5cecbdcaa65bee10e112a9e9

manifest

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-C Performance\simprovements\sto\sthe\sexternal\smerge-sorter.\s\sKeep\scontent\son\san\nin-memory\slinked\slists\srather\sthan\san\sephemeral\stable\sprior\sto\sspilling\sto\ndisk.\s\sUse\sthe\sexternal\smerge-sorter\sto\simplement\sORDER\sBY\sand\sGROUP\sBY\nin\saddition\sto\sCREATE\sINDEX.
-D 2011-09-03T17:07:26.674
+C Improve\sthe\stestability\sof\sthe\smerge-sort\slogic.
+D 2011-09-04T01:11:46.977
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@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ F src/printf.c 585a36b6a963df832cfb69505afa3a34ed5ef8a1
 F src/random.c cd4a67b3953b88019f8cd4ccd81394a8ddfaba50
 F src/resolve.c 36368f44569208fa074e61f4dd0b6c4fb60ca2b4
 F src/rowset.c 69afa95a97c524ba6faf3805e717b5b7ae85a697
-F src/select.c 32d0f4e5513362706b8973e7f1b87cd0885dfbf5
+F src/select.c bf7b7ea6befb483619da5f597b0864668b828c3c
 F src/shell.c bbe7818ff5bc8614105ceb81ad67b8bdc0b671dd
 F src/sqlite.h.in 0a6c9c23337fd1352c5c75a613ff9533aa7d91cb
 F src/sqlite3ext.h 1a1a4f784aa9c3b00edd287940197de52487cd93
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ F src/vdbeapi.c 11dc47987abacb76ad016dcf5abc0dc422482a98
 F src/vdbeaux.c e58acbc5ea3823922a0cd8fa21f94f39af51ee88
 F src/vdbeblob.c f024f0bf420f36b070143c32b15cc7287341ffd3
 F src/vdbemem.c 5e6effb96dd53d233361cbfaa3f0a43b9af689e9
-F src/vdbesort.c e6d6f0c2aa003f7cbdea8c9be47a15a8e854fb97
+F src/vdbesort.c 4ceadaa20c2a428ea2a5066f6d7d91d7a8118077
 F src/vdbetrace.c 5d0dc3d5fd54878cc8d6d28eb41deb8d5885b114
 F src/vtab.c 901791a47318c0562cd0c676a2c6ff1bc530e582
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@@ -961,7 +961,7 @@ F tool/symbols.sh caaf6ccc7300fd43353318b44524853e222557d5
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 F tool/vdbe-compress.tcl d70ea6d8a19e3571d7ab8c9b75cba86d1173ff0f
 F tool/warnings.sh b7fdb2cc525f5ef4fa43c80e771636dd3690f9d2
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manifest.uuid

@@ -1 +1 @@
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+b5179baf87aa00ed5cecbdcaa65bee10e112a9e9

src/select.c

@@ -900,7 +900,7 @@ static void generateSortTail(
     regRowid = sqlite3GetTempReg(pParse);
   }
   if( p->selFlags & SF_UseSorter ){
-    int regSortOut = sqlite3GetTempReg(pParse);
+    int regSortOut = ++pParse->nMem;
     int ptab2 = pParse->nTab++;
     sqlite3VdbeAddOp3(v, OP_OpenPseudo, ptab2, regSortOut, pOrderBy->nExpr+2);
     addr = 1 + sqlite3VdbeAddOp2(v, OP_SorterSort, iTab, addrBreak);

src/vdbesort.c

@@ -239,15 +239,10 @@ static int vdbeSorterReadVarint(
 ){
   u8 aVarint[9];                  /* Buffer large enough for a varint */
   i64 iOff = *piOffset;           /* Offset in file to read from */
-  int nRead = 9;                  /* Number of bytes to read from file */
   int rc;                         /* Return code */
 
   assert( iEof>iOff );
-  if( (iEof-iOff)<nRead ){
-    nRead = iEof-iOff;
-  }
-
-  rc = sqlite3OsRead(pFile, aVarint, nRead, iOff);
+  rc = sqlite3OsRead(pFile, aVarint, 9, iOff);
   if( rc==SQLITE_OK ){
     *piOffset += getVarint(aVarint, (u64 *)piVal);
   }
@@ -333,7 +328,7 @@ static int vdbeSorterCompare(
     /* This call cannot fail. As the memory is already allocated. */
     r2 = sqlite3VdbeRecordUnpack(pKeyInfo, nKey2, pKey2, aSpace, nSpace);
     assert( r2 && (r2->flags & UNPACKED_NEED_FREE)==0 );
-    assert( r2==aSpace );
+    assert( r2==(UnpackedRecord*)aSpace );
   }else{
     r2 = (UnpackedRecord *)aSpace;
     assert( !bOmitRowid );
@@ -387,10 +382,15 @@ static int vdbeSorterDoCompare(VdbeCursor *pCsr, int iOut){
     iRes = i1;
   }else{
     int res;
-    int rc = vdbeSorterCompare(
+    int rc;
+    assert( pCsr->pSorter->aSpace!=0 );  /* allocated in vdbeSorterMerge() */
+    rc = vdbeSorterCompare(
         pCsr, 0, p1->aKey, p1->nKey, p2->aKey, p2->nKey, &res
     );
-    if( rc!=SQLITE_OK ) return rc;
+    /* The vdbeSorterCompare() call cannot fail since pCsr->pSorter->aSpace
+    ** has already been allocated. */
+    assert( rc==SQLITE_OK );
+
     if( res<=0 ){
       iRes = i1;
     }else{
@@ -606,6 +606,7 @@ static int vdbeSorterListToPMA(sqlite3 *db, VdbeCursor *pCsr){
     i64 iOff = pSorter->iWriteOff;
     SorterRecord *p;
     SorterRecord *pNext = 0;
+    static const char eightZeros[8] = { 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 };
 
     pSorter->nPMA++;
     rc = vdbeSorterWriteVarint(pSorter->pTemp1, pSorter->nInMemory, &iOff);
@@ -629,6 +630,11 @@ static int vdbeSorterListToPMA(sqlite3 *db, VdbeCursor *pCsr){
     ));
 
     pSorter->iWriteOff = iOff;
+    if( rc==SQLITE_OK ){
+      /* Terminate each file with 8 extra bytes so that from any offset
+      ** in the file we can always read 9 bytes without a SHORT_READ error */
+      rc = sqlite3OsWrite(pSorter->pTemp1, eightZeros, 8, iOff);
+    }
     pSorter->pRecord = p;
   }