Re: ordered indexing for integers

[Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>]

Howard Chu writes:
> I was thinking of a fixed word size. Anything with variable length
> will require a custom B-tree sort function, and we really don't want
> to go there.  8-byte keys representing 64 bit integers would do. (In
> fact we could leave the presence index unchanged in that case.) We'd
> have to use a negated 2's complement representation, since the B-tree
> sorts keys as unsigned characters.

value + 1<<63, not negated.  (Otherwise we get -2 > -1 or something.)
And a min and max value for huge integers.

-- 
Hallvard