Re: BRIN indexes for MAX, MIN, ORDER BY?

On 27/09/15 21:58, Gavin Wahl wrote:
> Somewhat harder but still possible would be using BRIN indexes to
> accelerate ORDER BY. This would require a sorting algorithm that can take
> advantage of mostly-sorted inputs. You would sort the page ranges by their
> minimum or maximum value, then feed the sorting algorithm in that order.

An internal merge sort does well with partially-sorted input.
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Cheers,
 Jeremy