On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 10:49:10PM +0000, Peter Geoghegan wrote: > On 6 February 2012 21:19, Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> wrote: > > Peter Geoghegan obviously has done some serious work in improving > > sorting, and worked well with the community process. > > Thank you for acknowledging that. > > It's unfortunate that C does not support expressing these kinds of > ideas in a more natural way.
Yes, it is a problem, and a benefit. We have avoided C++ because these types of trade-offs that we are discussing are often done invisibly, so we can't make the decision ourselves. -- Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
