Minor performance improvement in transition to external sort - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

The attached patch replaces the existing siftup method for heapify with
a siftdown method. Tested with random integers it does 18% fewer
compares and takes 10% less time for the heapify, over the work_mem
range 1024 to 1048576.

Both algorithms appear to be O(n) (contradicting Wikipedia's claim
that a siftup heapify is O(n log n)).

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Cheers,
    Jeremy