On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 09:37:11AM +0200, PFC wrote:
>> PFC <lists@peufeu.com> writes:
>>> - for short strings (average 12 bytes), sort is CPU-bound in strcoll()
>>> - for longer strings (average 120 bytes), sort is even more CPU-bound in
>>> strcoll()
>>
>> No news there. If you are limited by the speed of text comparisons,
>> consider using C locale.
>>
> Actually, I think (see the bottom of my last email) that this would be a
> good argument for the per-column COLLATE patch...
Standard SQL COLLATE support is per column anyway, so just implementing
that will solve all the problems anyway.
Have a nice day,
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