Re: PG qsort vs. Solaris - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: PG qsort vs. Solaris
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Msg-id 11818.1159909763@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: PG qsort vs. Solaris  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I was planning to do it right now, on the grounds that #2 and #3 are bug
>> fixes, and that fixing the existing memory leakage hazard is a good
>> thing too.

> I am OK with doing it now, but calling it a bug fix seems like a
> stretch.  ;-)

How so?  The lack of a CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS was reported as a bug to
start with; it was only while investigating that that we realized there
was a memory-leak hazard, but that doesn't make the latter less real.
        regards, tom lane


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