Fix configs.md.

Author: mbutrovich

docs/source/user-guide/configs.md

@@ -117,7 +117,8 @@ The following configuration settings are available:
 | datafusion.execution.skip_physical_aggregate_schema_check               | false                     | When set to true, skips verifying that the schema produced by planning the input of `LogicalPlan::Aggregate` exactly matches the schema of the input plan. When set to false, if the schema does not match exactly (including nullability and metadata), a planning error will be raised. This is used to workaround bugs in the planner that are now caught by the new schema verification step.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
 | datafusion.execution.spill_compression                                  | uncompressed              | Sets the compression codec used when spilling data to disk. Since datafusion writes spill files using the Arrow IPC Stream format, only codecs supported by the Arrow IPC Stream Writer are allowed. Valid values are: uncompressed, lz4_frame, zstd. Note: lz4_frame offers faster (de)compression, but typically results in larger spill files. In contrast, zstd achieves higher compression ratios at the cost of slower (de)compression speed.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
 | datafusion.execution.sort_spill_reservation_bytes                       | 10485760                  | Specifies the reserved memory for each spillable sort operation to facilitate an in-memory merge. When a sort operation spills to disk, the in-memory data must be sorted and merged before being written to a file. This setting reserves a specific amount of memory for that in-memory sort/merge process. Note: This setting is irrelevant if the sort operation cannot spill (i.e., if there's no `DiskManager` configured).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
-| datafusion.execution.sort_in_place_threshold_bytes                      | 1048576                   | When sorting, below what size should data be concatenated and sorted in a single RecordBatch rather than sorted in batches and merged.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
+| datafusion.execution.sort_in_place_threshold_bytes                      | 1048576                   | When sorting, below what size should data be concatenated and sorted in a single RecordBatch rather than sorted in batches and merged. Deprecated: this option is no longer used. The sort pipeline now always coalesces batches before sorting. Use `sort_coalesce_target_rows` instead.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
+| datafusion.execution.sort_coalesce_target_rows                          | 32768                     | Target number of rows to coalesce before sorting in ExternalSorter. Larger values give radix sort (used for primitives and strings) enough rows to amortize RowConverter encoding overhead. Under memory pressure the actual chunk size may be smaller. For schemas that are not eligible for radix sort (all-dictionary or nested types), the coalesce target falls back to `batch_size` regardless of this setting.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
 | datafusion.execution.sort_pushdown_buffer_capacity                      | 1073741824                | Maximum buffer capacity (in bytes) per partition for BufferExec inserted during sort pushdown optimization. When PushdownSort eliminates a SortExec under SortPreservingMergeExec, a BufferExec is inserted to replace SortExec's buffering role. This prevents I/O stalls by allowing the scan to run ahead of the merge. This uses strictly less memory than the SortExec it replaces (which buffers the entire partition). The buffer respects the global memory pool limit. Setting this to a large value is safe — actual memory usage is bounded by partition size and global memory limits.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
 | datafusion.execution.max_spill_file_size_bytes                          | 134217728                 | Maximum size in bytes for individual spill files before rotating to a new file. When operators spill data to disk (e.g., RepartitionExec), they write multiple batches to the same file until this size limit is reached, then rotate to a new file. This reduces syscall overhead compared to one-file-per-batch while preventing files from growing too large. A larger value reduces file creation overhead but may hold more disk space. A smaller value creates more files but allows finer-grained space reclamation as files can be deleted once fully consumed. Now only `RepartitionExec` supports this spill file rotation feature, other spilling operators may create spill files larger than the limit. Default: 128 MB                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
 | datafusion.execution.meta_fetch_concurrency                             | 32                        | Number of files to read in parallel when inferring schema and statistics                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |