Gary Doades <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is this likely to hit me in a random fashion during normal operation, > joins, sorts, order by for example?
Yup, anytime you're passing data with that kind of distribution through a sort. > So the options are: > 1) Fix the included qsort.c code and use that > 2) Get FreeBSD to fix their qsort code > 3) Both > I guess that 1 is the real solution in case anyone else's qsort is > broken in the same way. Then at least you *could* use it all the time :) It's reasonable to assume that most of the *BSDen have basically the same qsort code. Ours claims to have come from NetBSD sources, but I don't doubt that they all trace back to a common ancestor. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster