On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 7:58 PM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 10:26 PM, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 2017-04-01 01:22:14 +0000, Robert Haas wrote:
> >> Avoid GatherMerge crash when there are no workers.
> >
> > I think the gather merge code needs a bit more test coverage (sorry to
> > make this a larger theme today).  As shown by
> > https://coverage.postgresql.org/src/backend/executor/
> nodeGatherMerge.c.gcov.html
> > we don't actually merge anything (heap_compare_slots is not exercised).
>
> Sounds reasonable.
>

I am working on this and will submit the patch soon.


>
> > I btw also wonder if it's good that we have a nearly identical copy of
> > heap_compare_slots and a bunch of the calling code in both
> > nodeMergeAppend.c and nodeGatherMerge.c.  On the other hand, it's not
> > heavily envolving code.
>
> Yeah, I don't know.  We could alternatively try to move that to some
> common location and merge the two implementations.  I'm not sure
> exactly where, though.
>
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