Peter Geoghegan <p...@heroku.com> writes: > On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Right, and what I'm saying is that maybe the "applicability" flag >> shouldn't be stored in the SortSupport object, but passed down as an >> argument.
> But then how does that information get to any given sortsupport > routine? That's the place that really needs to know if abbreviation is > useful. In general, they're only passed a SortSupport object. Are you > suggesting revising the signature required of SortSupport routines to > add that extra flag as an additional argument? I think that is what he's suggesting, and I too am wondering why it's a good idea. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers