Re: Progress on fast path sorting, btree index creation time

Jay Levitt <jay.levitt@gmail.com>

From: Jay Levitt <jay.levitt@gmail.com>
To: "Jim \"Decibel!\" Nasby" <decibel@decibel.org>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Peter Geoghegan <peter@2ndquadrant.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-02-07T19:39:07Z
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  1. During btree index build, sort equal-keyed tuples according to their

Jim "Decibel!" Nasby wrote:
> I agree that it's probably pretty unusual to index floats.

FWIW: Cubes and points are floats, right? So would spatial indexes benefit 
from this optimization, or is it only raw floats?

Jay Levitt