On Feb 16, 2006, at 2:17 PM, Mark Lewis wrote:
Data types which could probably provide a useful function for f would be
int2, int4, oid, and possibly int8 and text (at least for SQL_ASCII).
...and with some work, floats (I think just the exponent would work, if nothing else). bytea. Probably just about anything.
Interesting. If you abandon the idea that collisions should be impossible (they're not indexes) or extremely rare (they're not hashes), it's pretty easy to come up with a decent hint to avoid a lot of dereferences.
