Re: cutting down the TODO list thread - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 05:41:50PM -0400, John Naylor wrote:
> Here I'm just reviewing a couple items in the Sorting section:
> 
> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Todo#Sorting
> 
> - Consider whether duplicate keys should be sorted by block/offset
> 
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/23321.1205726381%40sss.pgh.pa.us
> 
> It's moot since we started requiring tid as a tiebreaker for btree indexes, so
> I'll just remove this.
> 
> - Consider being smarter about memory and external files used during sorts
> 
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/1196186626.4246.1078.camel@ebony.site
> 
> We've had a large number of improvements in this area since 2007, and it seems
> the ideas in this thread have mostly been done or superseded already. 

Agreed.  Please remove them or I can do it.

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