On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 06:43:04PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 10:49:10PM +0000, Peter Geoghegan wrote: > > On 6 February 2012 21:19, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> 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.
Let me add that while it is fine for languages like C++ to make these decisions for application code automatically, operating systems and high-performance databases developers prefer to make such decisions explicitly, which is what we are discussing now. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
