Re: Re: Which qsort is used - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Qingqing Zhou
Subject Re: Re: Which qsort is used
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.58.0512162010320.28357@eon.cs
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In response to Re: Re: Which qsort is used  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Bruce Momjian wrote:

>
> At this point, I think we have done enough testing on enough platforms
> to just use port/qsort on all platforms in 8.2.  It seems whenever
> someone tries to improve the BSD qsort, they make it worse.
>

Not necessariliy true. Dann Corbit sent me an implementation a while ago
(you can see it on the same site). BSD qsort is improved, though not that
much, by two methods. Since Dann write the program from scratch, so I am
not sure if we are afford to take the efforts for the improvement.

Regards,
Qingqing





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