Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> We might have to just tolerate this, but if it occurs on a lot of
>> platforms I'd have second thoughts about applying the patch. Anyone
>> familiar with the internals of glibc's qsort, in particular?
> Doesn't look like it's allocating any nonlocal memory:
> http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/libc/stdlib/qsort.c?rev=1.12&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=glibc
But this file defines _quicksort() not qsort(). I was under the
impression that the latter is actually a mergesort in glibc ...
regards, tom lane
