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Comment:Clarify the purpose of the nField argument passed to sqlite3VdbeSorterInit().
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User & Date: dan 2014-04-16 19:04:23.830
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2014-04-17
08:57
Fix build problems in vdbesort.c. Add further comments and changes to make things easier to understand. (check-in: 12b190db1d user: dan tags: threads)
2014-04-16
19:04
Clarify the purpose of the nField argument passed to sqlite3VdbeSorterInit(). (check-in: c0c8cff17b user: dan tags: threads)
17:41
Change the name of vdbeIncrInit2 to vdbePmaReaderIncrInit. Add a header comment to the same function. (check-in: 6622d87675 user: dan tags: threads)
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  pMerger->aTree[iOut] = iRes;
  return SQLITE_OK;
}

/*
** Initialize the temporary index cursor just opened as a sorter cursor.
















*/
int sqlite3VdbeSorterInit(
  sqlite3 *db,                    /* Database connection (for malloc()) */
  int nField,                     /* Number of key fields in each record */
  VdbeCursor *pCsr                /* Cursor that holds the new sorter */
){
  int pgsz;                       /* Page size of main database */







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  pMerger->aTree[iOut] = iRes;
  return SQLITE_OK;
}

/*
** Initialize the temporary index cursor just opened as a sorter cursor.
**
** Usually, the sorter module uses the value of (pCsr->pKeyInfo->nField)
** to determine the number of fields that should be compared from the
** records being sorted. However, if the value passed as argument nField
** is non-zero and the sorter is able to guarantee a stable sort, nField
** is used instead. This is used when sorting records for a CREATE INDEX
** statement. In this case, keys are always delivered to the sorter in
** order of the primary key, which happens to be make up the final part 
** of the records being sorted. So if the sort is stable, there is never
** any reason to compare PK fields and they can be ignored for a small
** performance boost.
**
** The sorter can guarantee a stable sort when running in single-threaded
** mode, but not in multi-threaded mode.
**
** SQLITE_OK is returned if successful, or an SQLite error code otherwise.
*/
int sqlite3VdbeSorterInit(
  sqlite3 *db,                    /* Database connection (for malloc()) */
  int nField,                     /* Number of key fields in each record */
  VdbeCursor *pCsr                /* Cursor that holds the new sorter */
){
  int pgsz;                       /* Page size of main database */