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Configures the number of partitions to use when shuffling data for joins or aggregations.
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+ <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.
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# Distributed SQL Engine