Re: A qsort template

On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 6:39 PM John Naylor
<john.naylor@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> Editorializing the null position in queries is not very common in my
> experience. Not null is interesting since it'd be trivial to pass
> constant false to the same Apply[XYZ]SortComparator() and let the
> compiler remove all those branches for us. On the other hand, those
> branches would be otherwise predicted well, so it might make little or
> no difference.

If you were going to do this, maybe you could encode NULL directly in
an abbreviated key. I think that that could be made to work if it was
limited to opclasses with abbreviated keys encoded as unsigned
integers. Just a thought.

-- 
Peter Geoghegan