| From: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
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| To: | John Hansen <john(at)geeknet(dot)com(dot)au> |
| Cc: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Does anybody use ORDER BY x USING y? |
| Date: | 2005-09-18 20:50:40 |
| Message-ID: | 20050918205035.GF31394@svana.org |
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On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 06:26:10AM +1000, John Hansen wrote:
> I was actually of the impression that that was exacty what it was for:
> specifying what op(class) to use for the sort in case you wanted to use
> a non-default opclass for the type, and/or if the less-than operator
> wasn't called '<'.
That's my thought. However, the code doesn't seem to restrict you to
that so I was wondering if there was any other use out there that we
should consider supporting...
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a
> tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone
> else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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