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

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Remove hacks for old bad qsort() implementations?
Date: 2008-05-08 16:27:49
Message-ID: 200805081627.m48GRng19857@momjian.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> 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.

Yea, that's what I was thinking. Your measurements were significant.

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