mlw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I noticed poor performance on Solaris, does one see this problem > when compiling PostgreSQL with gcc on solaris?
Since it's libc that's the culprit, I would imagine so. > As a suggestion, why not find the *best* version of qsort available, > anywhere, and always use that version on all platforms? Because qsort() is *supposed* to be optimized by the vendor for their platform, perhaps even written in assembler. It makes sense to trust the vendor except when their implementation is provably pessimized. -Doug -- Doug McNaught Wireboard Industries http://www.wireboard.com/ Custom software development, systems and network consulting. Java PostgreSQL Enhydra Python Zope Perl Apache Linux BSD... ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster