Re: Remove hacks for old bad qsort() implementations?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Remove hacks for old bad qsort() implementations?
Date: 2008-05-08 15:43:37
Message-ID: 2731.1210261417@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> Tom, are you intending to remove this part of the sort code?
http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/23321.1205726381@sss.pgh.pa.us

Well, I got some push-back on the proposal, so I'd kind of dropped it.
But AFAIR the objections were purely hypothetical, whereas the cost
of the existing code is measurable; so maybe we should do it anyway.

regards, tom lane

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