On 8 September 2017 at 18:06, Peter Geoghegan <p...@bowt.ie> wrote: > * It's still faster with int4/int8 comparisons on modern hardware, and > I think that most ordered inputs will be of those types in practice.
This may be a bit "how long is a piece of string" but how do those two compare with string sorting in an interesting encoding/locale -- say /usr/share/dict/polish in pl_PL for example. It's certainly true that people do sort text as well as numbers. Also, people often sort on keys of more than one column.... -- greg -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
