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.
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