Add GiST and btree sortsupport routines for range types
For GiST, having a sortsupport function allows building the index
using the "sorted build" method, which is much faster.
For b-tree, the sortsupport routine doesn't give any new
functionality, but speeds up sorting a tiny bit. The difference is not
very significant, about 2% in cursory testing on my laptop, because
the range type comparison function has quite a lot of overhead from
detoasting. In any case, since we have the function for GiST anyway,
we might as well register it for the btree opfamily too.
Author: Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/64d324ce2a6d535d3f0f3baeeea7b25beff82ce4.camel@oopsware.de
Branch
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master
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/e9e7b66044c9e3dfa76fd1599d5703acd3e4a3f5
Modified Files
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src/backend/utils/adt/rangetypes.c | 64 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
src/include/catalog/catversion.h | 2 +-
src/include/catalog/pg_amproc.dat | 6 ++++
src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat | 3 ++
4 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
