Re: [PATCH] Simplify SortSupport implementation for macaddr

> On 25 Feb 2026, at 18:05, Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander(at)tigerdata(dot)com> wrote:
>
> <v1-0001-Simplify-SortSupport-implementation-for-macaddr.patch>

The patch looks correct and useful to me.

Two small points:

1. The assignment ssup->ssup_extra = NULL can be removed. The
SortSupport struct is zeroed before the callback is called (see
sortsupport.h). There are about 22 similar assignments elsewhere;
it does not seem to be established practice, many other places have
no such assignment.

2. I checked whether the existing tests actually use the SortSupport
path. If macaddr_abbrev_abort() is made to error out, the macaddr.sql
tests fail in two places: once for the index and once for the SELECT.
So the current test file does exercise the SortSupport code path. I
also tried making macaddr_abbrev_abort() always return true (so
abbreviation is always aborted); the test dataset is small, but
sorting seem to produce correct results.

The patch looks good to me.

Best regards, Andrey Borodin.