Re: More thoughts on sorting

> PFC <lists@peufeu.com> writes:
>> - for short strings (average 12 bytes), sort is CPU-bound in strcoll()
>> - for longer strings (average 120 bytes), sort is even more CPU-bound in
>> strcoll()
>
> No news there.  If you are limited by the speed of text comparisons,
> consider using C locale.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>
Actually, I think (see the bottom of my last email) that this would be a  
good argument for the per-column COLLATE patch...