On 10/10/14, 7:26 PM, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
Both Robert and Heikki expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that
B-Tree index builds don't use sortsupport. Because B-Tree index builds
cannot really use the "onlyKey" optimization, the historic oversight
of not supporting B-Tree builds (and CLUSTER) might have been at least
a little understandable [1]. But with the recent work on sortsupport
for text, it's likely that B-Tree index builds will be missing out on
rather a lot by not taking advantage of sortsupport.
Attached patch modifies tuplesort to correct this oversight. What's
really nice about it is that there is actually a net negative code
footprint:
Did anything ever happen with this?
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Jim Nasby, Data Architect, Blue Treble Consulting
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