Re: Performance optimization of btree binary search

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> On Wed, 2013-12-04 at 19:45 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> Yeah, that's another thing we could simplify if we fixed this problem
>>> at the source.  I think these decisions date from a time when we still
>>> cared about the speed of fmgr_oldstyle.

>> Sure, let's whack that thing with a crowbar.

> Or just remove it.  Who still needs it?

Lazy people?  I'm not in a hurry to drop it; it's not costing us much to
just sit there, other than in this connection which we see how to fix.
        regards, tom lane