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

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Remove hacks for old bad qsort() implementations?
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Msg-id 2731.1210261417@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Remove hacks for old bad qsort() implementations?  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: Remove hacks for old bad qsort() implementations?  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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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.
        regards, tom lane


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