On 08/03/2021 19:06, Andrey Borodin wrote:
There were numerous GiST-build-related patches in this thread. Yet uncommitted is a patch with sortsupport routines for btree_gist contrib module. Here's its version which needs review.
Reviewing this now again. One thing caught my eye:
+static int +gbt_bit_sort_build_cmp(Datum a, Datum b, SortSupport ssup) +{ + return DatumGetInt32(DirectFunctionCall2(byteacmp, + PointerGetDatum(a), + PointerGetDatum(b))); +}
That doesn't quite match the sort order used by the comparison functions, gbt_bitlt and such. The comparison functions compare the bits first, and use the length as a tie-breaker. Using byteacmp() will compare the "bit length" first. However, gbt_bitcmp() also uses byteacmp(), so I'm a bit confused. So, huh?
- Heikki