Re: Wrong Results from SP-GiST with Collations

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Emre Hasegeli <emre(at)hasegeli(dot)com>, Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>, PostgreSQL Bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Wrong Results from SP-GiST with Collations
Date: 2018-04-16 19:58:52
Message-ID: CAH2-WzkTSwd=3SP+P2gHA4LzBm8Z1AhVpGWrB=gpS-EMWrg9vw@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 12:55 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> I'm not following --- varstr_cmp has no way to know that we only
> care about equality vs inequality. Yes, it might give back an
> answer quickly when the strings are equal, but when they aren't,
> it has to decide which is greater. In this case we don't care,
> so long as the search operator is "=".

That was the subtlety I was missing. I didn't understand what you
meant, but thought that the fast-path might be relevant. Clearly not.

--
Peter Geoghegan

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