Re: Proof of concept COLLATE support with patch - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Proof of concept COLLATE support with patch
Date
Msg-id 8946.1125871571@sss.pgh.pa.us
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: Proof of concept COLLATE support with patch  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
Responses Re: Proof of concept COLLATE support with patch
Re: Proof of concept COLLATE support with patch
List pgsql-hackers
Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
> But there's nothing wrong with saying "it's slow because your
> libc is slow. Compile with this freely available library which has a better
> implementation".

The hole in that argument is the assumption that there *is* a freely
available library that can be used (where freely == BSD license).
We wouldn't be having this discussion if we knew of one.
        regards, tom lane


pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Hannu Krosing
Date:
Subject: Re: Question about explain of index scan
Next
From: Tom Lane
Date:
Subject: Re: Question about explain of index scan