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  pIn1 = &aMem[p1];
  pOut = &aMem[p2];
  do{
    assert( pOut<=&aMem[(p->nMem-p->nCursor)] );
    assert( pIn1<=&aMem[(p->nMem-p->nCursor)] );
    assert( memIsValid(pIn1) );
    memAboutToChange(p, pOut);
    sqlite3VdbeMemRelease(pOut);
    zMalloc = pOut->zMalloc;
    memcpy(pOut, pIn1, sizeof(Mem));
#ifdef SQLITE_DEBUG
    if( pOut->pScopyFrom>=&aMem[p1] && pOut->pScopyFrom<&aMem[p1+pOp->p3] ){
      pOut->pScopyFrom += p1 - pOp->p2;
    }
#endif

**
** When Rewind() is called, any data remaining in memory is flushed to a 
** final PMA. So at this point the data is stored in some number of sorted
** PMAs within temporary files on disk.
**
** If there are fewer than SORTER_MAX_MERGE_COUNT PMAs in total and the
** sorter is running in single-threaded mode, then these PMAs are merged
** incrementally as keys are retreived from the sorter by the VDBE.  The
** MergeEngine object, described in further detail below, performs this
** merge.
**
** Or, if running in multi-threaded mode, then a background thread is
** launched to merge the existing PMAs. Once the background thread has
** merged T bytes of data into a single sorted PMA, the main thread 
** begins reading keys from that PMA while the background thread proceeds
** with merging the next T bytes of data. And so on.
**

/*
** Free all resources owned by the object indicated by argument pTask. All 
** fields of *pTask are zeroed before returning.
*/
static void vdbeSortSubtaskCleanup(sqlite3 *db, SortSubtask *pTask){
  sqlite3DbFree(db, pTask->pUnpacked);
  pTask->pUnpacked = 0;
#if SQLITE_MAX_WORKER_THREADS>0
  /* pTask->list.aMemory can only be non-zero if it was handed memory
  ** from the main thread.  That only occurs SQLITE_MAX_WORKER_THREADS>0 */
  if( pTask->list.aMemory ){
    sqlite3_free(pTask->list.aMemory);
    pTask->list.aMemory = 0;
  }else
#endif
  {
    assert( pTask->list.aMemory==0 );
    vdbeSorterRecordFree(0, pTask->list.pList);
  }
  pTask->list.pList = 0;
  if( pTask->file.pFd ){
    sqlite3OsCloseFree(pTask->file.pFd);
    pTask->file.pFd = 0;
    pTask->file.iEof = 0;
  }

  assert( pSorter->bUseThreads || pSorter->nTask==1 );
  if( pSorter->nTask>1 ){
    pMain = vdbeMergeEngineNew(pSorter->nTask);
    if( pMain==0 ) rc = SQLITE_NOMEM;
  }
#endif

  for(iTask=0; rc==SQLITE_OK && iTask<pSorter->nTask; iTask++){
    SortSubtask *pTask = &pSorter->aTask[iTask];
    if( pTask->nPMA ){
      MergeEngine *pRoot = 0;     /* Root node of tree for this task */
      int nDepth = vdbeSorterTreeDepth(pTask->nPMA);
      i64 iReadOff = 0;

      if( pTask->nPMA<=SORTER_MAX_MERGE_COUNT ){

          if( rc==SQLITE_OK ){
            rc = vdbeSorterAddToTree(pTask, nDepth, iSeq++, pRoot, pMerger);
          }
        }
      }

      if( rc==SQLITE_OK ){
#if SQLITE_MAX_WORKER_THREADS>0
        if( pMain!=0 ){
          rc = vdbeIncrNew(pTask, pRoot, &pMain->aIter[iTask].pIncr);
        }else
#endif
        {
          assert( pMain==0 );
          pMain = pRoot;
        }
      }else{
        vdbeMergeEngineFree(pRoot);
      }
    }
  }