| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Geoghegan <peter(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Progress on fast path sorting, btree index creation time |
| Date: | 2012-02-06 23:43:04 |
| Message-ID: | 20120206234304.GI19450@momjian.us |
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On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 10:49:10PM +0000, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On 6 February 2012 21:19, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> > Peter Geoghegan obviously has done some serious work in improving
> > sorting, and worked well with the community process.
>
> Thank you for acknowledging that.
>
> It's unfortunate that C does not support expressing these kinds of
> ideas in a more natural way.
Yes, it is a problem, and a benefit. We have avoided C++ because these
types of trade-offs that we are discussing are often done invisibly, so
we can't make the decision ourselves.
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com
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