On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Peter Geoghegan <p...@heroku.com> wrote: > * Add sortsupport (support for non-SQL callable interface for > comparators) with abbreviation capability to text/varlena operator > class. This significantly accelerates sorting on text columns. > (4ea51cdfe85 too, but also b34e37bf. Worth noting separately IMV. > Geoghegan, Haas).
Also, note that there is no character(n) support for abbreviation as yet (nor is there any contrib/citext support), so it's not quite true that the sorting stuff accelerates sorts on "character fields". -- Peter Geoghegan -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers