Re: More work on SortSupport for text - strcoll() and strxfrm() caching

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> In this case, I think
> the best thing for me to do right now is wait to commit anything
> further until you have had a chance to go over this and come up with a
> fix or set of fixes that you think are completely, 100% ready to go;
> or else until you get to the point of wanting feedback before
> proceeding further. In general, I would appreciate if this sort of
> post-commit self-review could be done pre-commit.

This came to me while I was making dinner last night - I was not
actually poring over the code on my computer. I don't know why I
thought of it then and not at any earlier point, but it seems
reasonable to suppose it had something to do with perspective, or
being able to see a bigger picture that is difficult to keep in mind
during initial development and self review. I was mostly thinking
about external sorting at the time, and not this patch.

I cannot do that on demand. It isn't a matter of effort. When I come
back from vacation at the end of the month, I may be able to do
somewhat better for a few months.

--
Peter Geoghegan