Re: MULTISET and additional functions for ARRAY - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Itagaki Takahiro
Subject Re: MULTISET and additional functions for ARRAY
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Msg-id AANLkTi=o8-SqrDGFuYqwdj3vmDEyoDe5N+J-80rwT0ow@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: MULTISET and additional functions for ARRAY  (Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>)
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Re: MULTISET and additional functions for ARRAY
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On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 14:37, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe can be useful to implement a searching on sorted array.
> You can hold a flag if multiset is sorted or not.

Are you suggesting to add an IS_SORTED bit to for each ArrayType value?
It might be possible, but I'm not sure how much it is useful.

Another issue for sorting is that we have 4 kinds of sorting: ASC/DESC
and NULLS FIRST/LAST. I always used the default sort order (ASC NULLS LAST)
in the patch, but we might need to support all of them when we export the
functionality. Then, we would need 2 bits for IS_SORTED flags.

-- 
Itagaki Takahiro


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