Re: Is tuplesort_heap_siftup() a misnomer? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Geoghegan
Subject Re: Is tuplesort_heap_siftup() a misnomer?
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In response to Re: Is tuplesort_heap_siftup() a misnomer?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Re: Is tuplesort_heap_siftup() a misnomer?
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On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 12:01 AM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> wrote:
>>> I still think tuplesort_heap_siftup is a confusing name, although I'm not
>>> sure that Peter's "compact" is much better. I suggest that we rename it to
>>> tuplesort_heap_delete_top(). In comments within the function, explain that
>>> the *loop* corresponds to the "siftup" in Knuth's book.
>
>> I'm also fine with that name.
>
> I can live with it too.

Attached patch does it that way, then. I stuck with the reference to
"shift down", though, since I think we all agree that that is
unambiguous.

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Peter Geoghegan

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