Re: Progress on fast path sorting, btree index creation time

On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 11:35:46AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Yes, please.  That would be a big help.   Is there no optimization for
> > strings?  I assume they are sorted a lot.  
> 
> It seems unlikely that it'd be worth including strings, especially if
> your locale is not C.  This whole thing only makes sense for datatypes
> that are comparable in approximately 1 machine instruction.

Ah, OK, interesting.

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