On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 18:28 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > It seems clear that our qsort.c is doing a pretty awful job of picking > qsort pivots, while glibc is mostly managing not to make that mistake. > I haven't looked at the glibc code yet to see what they are doing > differently.
glibc qsort is actually merge sort, so I'm not surprised it avoids this problem. -Neil ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
