Re: B-Tree support function number 3 (strxfrm() optimization)

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: B-Tree support function number 3 (strxfrm() optimization)
Date: 2014-04-07 17:42:37
Message-ID: 20140407174237.GH4161@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2014-04-07 10:29:53 -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > As an utterly trivial point, I
> > find the naming to be less than ideal: "poorman" is not a term I want
> > to enshrine in our code. That's not very descriptive of what the
> > patch is actually doing even if you know what the idiom means, and
> > people whose first language - many of whom do significant work on our
> > code - may not.
>
> I didn't come up with the idea, or the name.

Doesn't mean it needs to be enshrined everywhere. I don't think Robert's
against putting it in some comments.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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