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brodouevencode
Request: version the library so it's a little easier to manage.
tsenart
Author here! Will do eventually.
nnx
This looks interesting but I can't think of an use case. Can you share some examples where it could be useful?
tsenart
Yes! A typical use case is to efficiently implement ORDER BY LIMIT N in SQL databases in a way that doesn’t require sorting the entire column just to get those first N items.
johnthescott
i assume this go code runs in the client since pg does not support golang server side. why would a client side ordering be faster than doing in the database?
tsenart
This is to implement a database, not use one.