On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com> wrote:
> So we consider the
> appropriateness of a regular strcoll() or a strxfrm() in all contexts
> (in a generic and extensible manner, but that's essentially what we
> do). I'm not too discouraged by this restriction, because in practice
> it won't come up very often.
I meant: We consider the appropriateness of a strxfrm() + strcmp()
against the pre-strfxfrm()'d scanKey datum, when the optimization is
not in force, as against just a plain strcmp() when it is.
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Peter Geoghegan