Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 5:20 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think that we should really consider doing with this patch what Tom
>> suggested upthread; namely, looking for a mechanism to allow
>> individual datatypes to offer up a comparator function that doesn't
>> require bouncing through FunctionCall2Coll().
> I don't think its credible to implement that kind of generic
> improvement at this stage of the release cycle.
Er, *what*? We're in mid development cycle, we are nowhere near
release. When exactly would you have us make major changes?
In any case, what I understood Robert to be proposing was an add-on
feature that could be implemented in one datatype at a time. Not
a global flag day. We couldn't really do the latter anyway without
making life very unpleasant for authors of extension datatypes.
regards, tom lane