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From Tom Lane
Subject pgsql: Replace insertion sort in contrib/intarray with qsort().
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Msg-id E1YXLbl-0008I8-2v@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Replace insertion sort in contrib/intarray with qsort().

It's all very well to claim that a simplistic sort is fast in easy
cases, but O(N^2) in the worst case is not good ... especially if the
worst case is as easy to hit as "descending order input".  Replace that
bit with our standard qsort.

Per bug #12866 from Maksym Boguk.  Back-patch to all active branches.

Branch
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REL9_0_STABLE

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/40b0c10b763dfe4d6b171a58a2bd49cc3f880087

Modified Files
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contrib/intarray/_int_tool.c |   51 +++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)


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