Re: Remove hacks for old bad qsort() implementations? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Remove hacks for old bad qsort() implementations?
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Msg-id 200805081627.m48GRng19857@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Remove hacks for old bad qsort() implementations?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.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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