Re: Collation-aware comparisons in GIN opclasses - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Geoghegan
Subject Re: Collation-aware comparisons in GIN opclasses
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Msg-id CAM3SWZQ9x4Sgp6YaT-=MfBRwjMDGLwoy3Cd4borueaCZZCXgow@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Collation-aware comparisons in GIN opclasses  (Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Collation-aware comparisons in GIN opclasses  (Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>)
Re: Collation-aware comparisons in GIN opclasses  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Alexander Korotkov
<aekorotkov@gmail.com> wrote:
> some GIN opclasses uses collation-aware comparisons while they don't need to
> do especially collation-aware comparison. Examples are text[] and hstore
> opclasses. Depending on collation this may make them a much slower.

I'm glad that I saw how pointless this was with the jsonb GIN default
opclass during development.

> Rename such opclasses and make them not default.
> Create new default opclasses with bitwise comparison functions.
> Write recommendation to re-create indexes with default opclasses into
> documentation.

I certainly think this should be fixed if at all possible, but I'm not
sure about this plan. Can we really rename an opclass without
consequence, including having that respected across pg_upgrade?


-- 
Peter Geoghegan



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