Re: allow sorted builds for btree_gist

On 5/18/24 08:51, Andrey M. Borodin wrote:
>
>
>> On 18 May 2024, at 00:41, Tomas Vondra
>> <tomas(dot)vondra(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
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>> if the opclass supports sorted builds, because then we could
>> parallelize the sort.
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> Hi Tomas!
>
> Yup, I'd also be glad to see this feature. PostGIS folks are using
> their geometry (sortsupport was developed for this) with object id
> (this disables sort build).
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> It was committed once [0], but then reverted, vardata opclasses were
> implemented wrong. Now it's on CF[1], Bernd is actively responding in
> the thread, but currently patch lacks tests.
>
> Thanks for raising this!
>

Oh, damn! I didn't notice the CF already has a patch doing this, and
that it was committed/reverted in 2021. I was completely oblivious to
that. Apologies.

Let's continue working on that patch/thread, I'll take a look in the
next CF.

regards

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