alamb commented on code in PR #9410:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion/pull/9410#discussion_r1510064935


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datafusion/physical-plan/src/sorts/sort.rs:
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@@ -587,7 +590,13 @@ pub(crate) fn sort_batch(
         .map(|expr| expr.evaluate_to_sort_column(batch))
         .collect::<Result<Vec<_>>>()?;
 
-    let indices = lexsort_to_indices(&sort_columns, fetch)?;
+    let indices = if is_multi_column_with_lists(&sort_columns) {

Review Comment:
   > FWIW I would anticipate the row format being faster for almost all multi 
column sorts
   
   My suspicion is that only for large variable length stringss would this 
approach be faster 



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datafusion/physical-plan/src/sorts/sort.rs:
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@@ -587,7 +590,13 @@ pub(crate) fn sort_batch(
         .map(|expr| expr.evaluate_to_sort_column(batch))
         .collect::<Result<Vec<_>>>()?;
 
-    let indices = lexsort_to_indices(&sort_columns, fetch)?;
+    let indices = if is_multi_column_with_lists(&sort_columns) {

Review Comment:
   > FWIW I would anticipate the row format being faster for almost all multi 
column sorts
   
   My suspicion is that only for large variable length stringss would this 
approach be slower 



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