result properties in pcre.c

Hi, I was looking at pcre.c for some inspiration and found something suspicious. At the end of both pcre_likeselect() and re_likeselect(): if (bn && !msg) { BATsetcount(bn, BATcount(bn)); /* set some properties */ bn->tsorted = true; bn->trevsorted = bn->batCount <= 1; bn->tkey = true; bn->tseqbase = bn->batCount == 0 ? 0 : bn->batCount == 1 ? * (oid *) Tloc(bn, 0) : oid_nil; } Which I read as: if everything went well, then the result is sorted and key. But I miss why it should be sorted and key. Roberto