Re: texteq/byteaeq: avoid detoast [REVIEW]

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> On mån, 2011-01-17 at 07:35 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> In fact, aren't there cases where the *length test* also fails?

> Currently, two text values are only equal of strcoll() considers them
> equal and the bits are the same.  So this patch is safe in that regard.

> There is, however, some desire to loosen this.

That isn't ever going to happen, unless you'd like to give up hash joins
and hash aggregation on text values.
        regards, tom lane