On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > IMO this patch is already well past the point of diminishing returns in > value-per-byte-added. I'd like to see it trimmed back to provide a fast > path for just single-column int4/int8/float4/float8 sorts. The other > cases aren't going to offer enough of a win to justify the code space.
I'm curious about how much we're gaining from the single-column specializations vs. the type-specific specializations. I think I'm going to go try to characterize that. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers