On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 03:36:23PM +0000, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On 9 February 2012 14:51, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm not sure I entirely follow all this, but I'll look at the code
> > once you have it. Are you saying that all the comparetup_yadda
> > functions are redundant to each other in the single-key case?
>
> Yes, I am. The main reason that the loops exist in those functions
> (which is the only way that they substantially differ) is because they
> each have to get the other keys through various ways that characterise
> the tuple class that they encapsulate (index_getattr(),
> heap_getattr(), etc).
Does this help all types for sorting, including strings?
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