diff --git a/docs/sql-programming-guide.md b/docs/sql-programming-guide.md index 282ea75e1e785399ae00d72636efbea65ae7d756..cde5830c733e0dbbfbb2b547097cb0ca685219e9 100644 --- a/docs/sql-programming-guide.md +++ b/docs/sql-programming-guide.md @@ -1785,6 +1785,13 @@ that these options will be deprecated in future release as more optimizations ar Configures the number of partitions to use when shuffling data for joins or aggregations. </td> </tr> + <tr> + <td><code>spark.sql.planner.externalSort</code></td> + <td>false</td> + <td> + When true, performs sorts spilling to disk as needed otherwise sort each partition in memory. + </td> + </tr> </table> # Distributed SQL Engine