On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Well, really, I was just suggesting that I can spend more time on the
>> patch, but not immediately.
>
> We haven't really talked about the idea of the HyperLogLog-based abort
> mechanism - the actual cost model - even though I thought we'd have
> discussed that extensively by now.
My concern is that if we only get it committed in the last commitfest,
we may run out of time to make sortsupport work for B-Tree index
builds. That's where the sortsupport for text stuff will be really
useful.
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Peter Geoghegan