Re: order by, for custom types

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
To: Grzegorz Jaskiewicz <gj(at)pointblue(dot)com(dot)pl>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Kevin McArthur <Kevin(at)StormTide(dot)ca>, andrew(at)supernews(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: order by, for custom types
Date: 2005-11-22 16:17:50
Message-ID: 20051122161750.GG12548@svana.org
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On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 05:14:35PM +0100, Grzegorz Jaskiewicz wrote:
> Ok, I hacked btree for my type, and surely I can have both btree and
> gist at the same time on the same column.
> /me is now going to have a look on btree_gist.

You don't actually have to have a btree defined on your column for
ORDER BY to work, you just need to define a btree OPERATOR CLASS so
that PostgreSQL knows what you mean by "ORDER BY".

Have a nice day,
--
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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