On 2010-11-10 15:46, Alexander Korotkov wrote: <blockquote
cite="mid:AANLkTimYb_zRhX3AP2u0+K8wJEf751YP9-iZ6GVN_Jm5@mail.gmail.com"type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov
10,2010 at 5:37 PM, Yeb Havinga <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yebhavinga@gmail.com"
moz-do-not-send="true">yebhavinga@gmail.com</a>></span>wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:
0pt0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">They
arenecessary and it is code untouched by this patch, and the same line occurs in other picksplit functions as well. The
gbt_num_picksplitfunction shows that it can be avoided, by rewriting in the second loop</div><br /> *left++ =
sortItems[i].index;<br/> into<br /> v->spl_left[v->spl_nleft] = sortItems[i].index<br /><br /> Even though this
islonger code, I prefer this variant over the shorter one.<br /></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote">I can't
understandthis point. How the way of spl_left and spl_right arrays filling is related with additional FirstOffsetNumber
valueat the end of array, which is added by "*left = *right = FirstOffsetNumber;" line?</div></div></blockquote> You're
right,they are not related. I'm no longer sure it is necessary, looking at gistUserPicksplit.<br /><br /> regards,<br
/>Yeb Havinga<br /><br />