Re: Progress on fast path sorting, btree index creation time

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <peter(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Jay Levitt <jay(dot)levitt(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jim Decibel! Nasby <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Progress on fast path sorting, btree index creation time
Date: 2012-02-08 16:37:23
Message-ID: 20120208163723.GH24440@momjian.us
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On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 11:35:46AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > Yes, please. That would be a big help. Is there no optimization for
> > strings? I assume they are sorted a lot.
>
> It seems unlikely that it'd be worth including strings, especially if
> your locale is not C. This whole thing only makes sense for datatypes
> that are comparable in approximately 1 machine instruction.

Ah, OK, interesting.

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