On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 10:17:36AM -0500, Robert Haas wrote: > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > IMO this patch is already well past the point of diminishing returns in > > value-per-byte-added. I'd like to see it trimmed back to provide a fast > > path for just single-column int4/int8/float4/float8 sorts. The other > > cases aren't going to offer enough of a win to justify the code space. > > I'm curious about how much we're gaining from the single-column > specializations vs. the type-specific specializations. I think I'm > going to go try to characterize that.
Yes, please. That would be a big help. Is there no optimization for strings? I assume they are sorted a lot. We can alway add more data types later. -- 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
