Hitoshi Harada <umi.tan...@gmail.com> writes:
> Looking for git/cvs log a bit, tuplesort was already there since 1999
> while tuplestore was introduced around 2000 for materialized node. Why
> then was tuplestore invented as a new feature instead of extending
> tuplesort? Can't we unit them now?

I think they'd be unmaintainable if merged.  Each one is complicated
enough as-is, and they have different concerns and different use-cases
to optimize for.  Moreover it's not clear that merging them would buy us
much --- saving one copy step doesn't excite me, even if it actually
came out to be true which I'm unconvinced about.

                        regards, tom lane

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