On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
>> This is a marvellous win, a huge gain from a small, isolated and
>> easily tested change. By far the smallest amount of additional code to
>> sorting we will have added and yet one of the best gains.
>
> I think you forgot your cheerleader uniform.
LOL. I'm happy whoever and whenever we get large wins like that.
Go Postgres!
> A patch along these lines
> is not going to be small, isolated, easily maintained, nor beneficial
> for any but a small number of predetermined datatypes.
That was the starting premise.
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