On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Jeremy Harris <j...@wizmail.org> wrote: > Its performance shines on partially- or reverse-sorted input.
Search the archives for the work I did on timsort support a while back. A patch was posted, that had some impressive results provided you just considered the number of comparisons (and not TPS when sorting text), but at the time my sense was that it didn't have broad enough applicability for me to pursue further. That doesn't mean the idea wasn't useful, and it certainly doesn't mean that my rough patch couldn't be improved upon. For one thing, if there was a type that had a comparator that was, say, an order of magnitude more expensive than bttextcmp, it would definitely be a big win. -- Peter Geoghegan -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
