Re: [HACKERS] putting CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS in qsort_comparetup()

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> We might have to just tolerate this, but if it occurs on a lot of
>> platforms I'd have second thoughts about applying the patch.  Anyone
>> familiar with the internals of glibc's qsort, in particular?

> Doesn't look like it's allocating any nonlocal memory:

> http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/libc/stdlib/qsort.c?rev=1.12&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=glibc

But this file defines _quicksort() not qsort().  I was under the
impression that the latter is actually a mergesort in glibc ...

            regards, tom lane