Manfred Koizar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > comparetup_index() compares two IndexTuples. The structure > IndexTupleData consists basically of not much more than an ItemPointer, > and the patch is not much more than adding a comparison of two > ItemPointers. So how does the patch introduce a new low level > implementation dependency?
Because it sorts on tuple position, which is certainly about as low level as you can get. More to the point, though, no evidence has been provided that this is a good idea. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings