Re: B-Tree index builds, CLUSTER, and sortsupport

On 10/10/14, 7:26 PM, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> Both Robert and Heikki expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that
> B-Tree index builds don't use sortsupport. Because B-Tree index builds
> cannot really use the "onlyKey" optimization, the historic oversight
> of not supporting B-Tree builds (and CLUSTER) might have been at least
> a little understandable [1]. But with the recent work on sortsupport
> for text, it's likely that B-Tree index builds will be missing out on
> rather a lot by not taking advantage of sortsupport.
>
> Attached patch modifies tuplesort to correct this oversight. What's
> really nice about it is that there is actually a net negative code
> footprint:

Did anything ever happen with this?
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