Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 15:58:32 +0100
From: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>
To: James Coleman <jtc331@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>,
	Rafia Sabih <rafia.pghackers@gmail.com>,
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	Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Incremental sort (was: PoC: Partial sort)
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On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 09:37:01AM -0500, James Coleman wrote:
>On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 9:25 AM Tomas Vondra
><tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This patch has been marked as WoA since end of November, and there has
>> been no discussion/reviews since then :-( Based on off-list discussion
>> with James I don't think that's going to change in this CF, so I'll move
>> it to the next CF.
>>
>> I plan to work on the planner part of this patch before 2020-03, with
>> the hope it can still make it into 13.
>
>In that off-list discussion I'd mentioned to Tomas that I would still
>like to work on this, just my other responsibilities at work have left
>me little time to work on the most important remaining part of this
>(the planner parts) since that requires a fair amount of focus and
>time.
>
>That being said, the patch also needs some more work on improving
>EXPLAIN ANALYZE output (perhaps min/max/mean or median of
>memory usage number of groups in each sort mode), and I think it's far
>more feasible that I can tackle that piecemeal before the next CF.
>

Sure, sorry if that was not clear from my message - you're of course
more than welcome to continue working on this. My understanding is that
won't happen by the end of this CF, hence the move to 2020-03.

regards

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