Re: Re: Generalizing SortSupport for text to work with char(n), bytea, and alternative opclasses

Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com> wrote:
> > * bytea default opclass. This is a type that, like the others, shares
> > its representation with text (a varlena header and some data bytes --
> > a string, essentially). Its comparator already behaves identically to
> > that of the text comparator when the "C" collation is used. I've
> > actually seen a specific request for this [1].
> 
> I probably should have given an explanation for why it's okay that NUL
> bytes can exist in strings from the point of view of the generalized
> SortSupport for text worker function. The next revision will have
> comments along those lines.

Did you ever post "the next revision"?

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