On Thu, Feb 01, 2024 at 12:29:16PM -0500, Eric Sunshine wrote:

On Thu, Feb 1, 2024 at 8:17 AM Patrick Steinhardt [off-list ref] wrote:

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When retrieving the next entry of a merged iterator we need to drop all
records of other sub-iterators that would be shadowed by the record that
we are about to return. We do this by comparing record keys, dropping
all keys that are smaller or equal to the key of the record we are about
to return.

There is an edge case here where we can skip that comparison: when the
record in the priority queue comes from the same subiterator than the

s/than/as/

Thanks for your corrections, as usual :) I'll refrain from sending a v2
for now, but have squashed the fixes in while I wait for more feedback
on this series.

Patrick