Design document for improvements to monotonic top-k rendering #17039
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This PR retrospectively migrates and refines an internal document into a design document for recent changes to monotonic top-k rendering introduce in PR #16813.
Advances MaterializeInc/database-issues#4838.
Motivation
Tips for reviewer
Note that only minimal edits were performed to put the internal document into our template for design documents. Since the original document was quite extensive, I hope this is OK; otherwise, please let me know!
Checklist
$T ⇔ Proto$Tmapping (possibly in a backwards-incompatible way) and therefore is tagged with aT-protolabel.companion cloud PR to account for those changes that is tagged with
the release-blocker label (example).