From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Gary Doades <gpd(at)gpdnet(dot)co(dot)uk> |
Cc: | pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: qsort again (was Re: [PERFORM] Strange Create Index behaviour) |
Date: | 2006-02-16 00:04:46 |
Message-ID: | 21059.1140048286@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Gary Doades <gpd(at)gpdnet(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> Is this likely to hit me in a random fashion during normal operation,
> joins, sorts, order by for example?
Yup, anytime you're passing data with that kind of distribution
through a sort.
> So the options are:
> 1) Fix the included qsort.c code and use that
> 2) Get FreeBSD to fix their qsort code
> 3) Both
> I guess that 1 is the real solution in case anyone else's qsort is
> broken in the same way. Then at least you *could* use it all the time :)
It's reasonable to assume that most of the *BSDen have basically the
same qsort code. Ours claims to have come from NetBSD sources, but
I don't doubt that they all trace back to a common ancestor.
regards, tom lane
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