Re: B-Tree support function number 3 (strxfrm() optimization)

From: Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Marti Raudsepp <marti(at)juffo(dot)org>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: B-Tree support function number 3 (strxfrm() optimization)
Date: 2015-01-20 11:46:36
Message-ID: 87d269n0wl.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
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>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:

Robert> All right, it seems Tom is with you on that point, so after
Robert> some study, I've committed this with very minor modifications.

This caught my eye (thanks to conflict with GS patch):

* In the future, we should consider forcing the
* tuplesort_begin_heap() case when the abbreviated key
* optimization can thereby be used, even when numInputs is 1.

The comment in tuplesort_begin_datum that abbreviation can't be used
seems wrong to me; why is the copy of the original value pointed to by
stup->tuple (in the case of by-reference types, and abbreviation is
obviously not needed for by-value types) not sufficient?

Or what am I missing?

--
Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)

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