On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 2:58 AM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 02:17:12PM +0400, Alexander Korotkov wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 8:31 PM, PostgreSQL - Hans-J rgen Sch nig < > > postg...@cybertec.at> wrote: > > > > i think there is one more thing which would be really good in GIN > and which > > would solve a ton of issues. > > atm GIN entries are sorted by item pointer. > > if we could sort them by a "column" it would fix a couple of real > work > > issues such as ... > > > > SELECT ... FROM foo WHERE "tsearch_query" ORDER BY price > DESC LIMIT > > 10 > > > > ... or so. > > it many cases you want to search for a, say, product and find the > cheapest > > / most expensive one. > > if the tsearch_query yields a high number of rows (which it often > does) the > > subsequent sort will kill you. > > > > > > This is not intended to be a small change. However, some solution might > be > > possible in post 9.4 gin improvements or in new secret indexing project > which > > will be presented at PGCon :-) > > Would any of the listed changes cause backward-incompatible changes to > the on-disk format, causing problems for pg_upgrade? > None of them. ------ With best regards, Alexander Korotkov.
