Tom Lane wrote: > > Justin Clift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?
I noticed poor performance on Solaris, does one see this problem when compiling PostgreSQL with gcc on solaris? As a suggestion, why not find the *best* version of qsort available, anywhere, and always use that version on all platforms? ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html
