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From: Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: pgsql: Add GiST and btree sortsupport routines for range types
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2025 17:18:25 +0000
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)

Add GiST and btree sortsupport routines for range types

For GiST, having a sortsupport function allows building the index
using the "sorted build" method, which is much faster.

For b-tree, the sortsupport routine doesn't give any new
functionality, but speeds up sorting a tiny bit. The difference is not
very significant, about 2% in cursory testing on my laptop, because
the range type comparison function has quite a lot of overhead from
detoasting. In any case, since we have the function for GiST anyway,
we might as well register it for the btree opfamily too.

Author: Bernd Helmle <[email protected]>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/[email protected]

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/e9e7b66044c9e3dfa76fd1599d5703acd3e4a3f5

Modified Files
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src/backend/utils/adt/rangetypes.c | 64 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
src/include/catalog/catversion.h   |  2 +-
src/include/catalog/pg_amproc.dat  |  6 ++++
src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat    |  3 ++
4 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)



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