Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org> writes:
> Mark kirkwood wrote:
>> Indeed it is - obtained qsort.c from Freebsd CVS and rebuilt Postgresql :
>> The query now takes 6 seconds instead of 1 hour ! Thanks for an
>> excellent suggestion.
> How about we include this and have configure somehow ensure the Solaris
> users get it automatically?
> There are a *bunch* of Solaris users out there.
Hmm. I suppose there'd be no license issues with borrowing a BSD qsort.
But I can't see any reasonable way for configure to decide automatically
whether we should replace the system qsort. I think we'd have to put
a USE_PRIVATE_QSORT symbol definition into src/template/solaris.
Can anyone see a problem with doing it that way --- are there any
versions of Solaris where this'd be a bad idea?
regards, tom lane