From: | David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Jesper Pedersen <jesper(dot)pedersen(at)redhat(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: POC: converting Lists into arrays |
Date: | 2019-07-16 02:56:46 |
Message-ID: | CAKJS1f_0nc8gk_6bLxQKsFt5os3UCk2MNsNcpva6LJoSoqFm=w@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, 16 Jul 2019 at 07:49, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> A possibly controversial point is that I made list_qsort() sort the
> given list in-place, rather than building a new list as it has
> historically. For every single one of the existing and new callers,
> copying the input list is wasteful, because they were just leaking
> the input list anyway. But perhaps somebody feels that we should
> preserve the "const input" property? I thought that changing the
> function to return void, as done here, might be a good idea to
> ensure that callers notice its API changed --- otherwise they'd
> only get a warning about incompatible signature of the passed
> function pointer, which they might not notice; in fact I'm not
> totally sure all compilers would even give such a warning.
>
> If there's not complaints about that, I'm just going to go ahead
> and push this --- it seems simple enough to not need much review.
The only thoughts I have so far here are that it's a shame that the
function got called list_qsort() and not just list_sort(). I don't
see why callers need to know anything about the sort algorithm that's
being used.
If we're going to break compatibility for this, should we rename the
function too?
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David Rowley http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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