Re: POC: converting Lists into arrays

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Jesper Pedersen <jesper(dot)pedersen(at)redhat(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: POC: converting Lists into arrays
Date: 2019-07-16 16:01:38
Message-ID: CA+TgmobW8_+MfoJyjS1U9c1M8v7NOOyo4aM3v4SJXku4WE7ung@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 10:44 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net> writes:
> > On 7/15/19 11:07 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> >>> The only thoughts I have so far here are that it's a shame that the
> >>> function got called list_qsort() and not just list_sort().
>
> > I agree with David -- list_sort() is better. I don't think "sort" is
> > such a common stem that searching is a big issue, especially with modern
> > code indexing tools.
>
> OK, I'm outvoted, will do it that way.

I cast my vote in the other direction i.e. for sticking with qsort.

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Robert Haas
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