Add GiST and btree sortsupport routines for range types
authorHeikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>
Wed, 2 Apr 2025 16:51:28 +0000 (19:51 +0300)
committerHeikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>
Wed, 2 Apr 2025 16:51:28 +0000 (19:51 +0300)
commite9e7b66044c9e3dfa76fd1599d5703acd3e4a3f5
tree1fa6b61fa306e98cd33471b2e35e5aa439bbe075
parentea3f9b6da34a1a4dc2c0c118789587c2a85c78d7
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 <mailings@oopsware.de>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/64d324ce2a6d535d3f0f3baeeea7b25beff82ce4.camel@oopsware.de
src/backend/utils/adt/rangetypes.c
src/include/catalog/catversion.h
src/include/catalog/pg_amproc.dat
src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat