Tom Lane wrote:
> Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> > The key to the algorithm is that it uses a trie to bin rows with common
> > leading prefixes together. This avoids performing redundant comparisons
> > between those columns later.
>
> Interesting, but doesn't that make it utterly useless for sorting in
> non-C locales?

It seems so. But on the other hand it might prove helpful for
multicolumn sorts (which removes the "datatype-specific" objection).

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