Re: Which qsort is used

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Qingqing Zhou <zhouqq(at)cs(dot)toronto(dot)edu>
Subject: Re: Which qsort is used
Date: 2005-12-13 06:50:56
Message-ID: 200512122250.56677.josh@agliodbs.com
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Tom,

>  IIRC, the reason we reject
> Solaris' qsort is not that it is so bad in the typical case, but that it
> has some horrible corner-case behaviors.

Sun claims to have fixed these. Hopefully they'll do some testing which will
prove it.

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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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