Re: PG qsort vs. Solaris

Tom Lane wrote:
> Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:
> > On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 15:44 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> 1. Switch to using port/qsort.c all the time.
> >> 2. Add a "qsort_arg" function that is identical to qsort except it also
> >> passes a void pointer through to the comparison function.  This will
> >> allow us to get rid of the non-reentrant static variable and extra
> >> level of function call in tuplesort.c.
> >> 3. Insert a CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() call as was requested back in July.
> >> With glibc out of the way, there's no longer a reason to fear memory
> >> leakage from cancelling a sort.
> 
> > +1 from me.
> 
> > I can implement this (for 8.3, naturally), unless you'd prefer to do it
> > yourself.
> 
> I was planning to do it right now, on the grounds that #2 and #3 are bug
> fixes, and that fixing the existing memory leakage hazard is a good
> thing too.

I am OK with doing it now, but calling it a bug fix seems like a
stretch.  ;-)

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