Re: Progress on fast path sorting, btree index creation time - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Yes, please.  That would be a big help.   Is there no optimization for
> strings?  I assume they are sorted a lot.  

It seems unlikely that it'd be worth including strings, especially if
your locale is not C.  This whole thing only makes sense for datatypes
that are comparable in approximately 1 machine instruction.
        regards, tom lane