On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 12:28 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Right. Alternatively, you could actually call varstr_cmp() within the
>> "non-collation-aware" branch.
>
> True. This way saves a few cycles, but maybe it's not worth the extra
> code. I think the only case where you could really notice the difference
> is for an equality search operator, which might end up doing a lot more
> work in non-C collations (full-blown strcoll vs memcmp).
I don't have a full understanding of this particular problem, but it
sounds to me that that would be a non-issue due to the equality
fast-path added to varstr_cmp() several years ago. I microbenchmarked
it quite extensively at the time, and concluded that it was all but
free in cases where it didn't work out.
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Peter Geoghegan