Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> On 2023-Jan-31, David Rowley wrote:
>> It might be better if we had multirange_canonicalize() deserialize
>> these once and used some representation that could more easily be
>> qsorted. I'm not planning on doing any work on it though.
> Yeah, maybe it would be possible to have an in-memory representation
> that doesn't require any deparsing, and keep the compact representation
> to be used only for in-data-page storage. How to do this within the
> constraints of the Datum abstraction is not clear to me.
Perhaps the "expanded datum" mechanism would serve?
src/include/utils/expandeddatum.h
It might be too heavyweight for this application, but I'm not sure.
regards, tom lane
