On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 5:04 AM, Atri Sharma <atri.j...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I think if you'll try it you'll find that we perform quite well on >> data sets of this kind - and if you read the code you'll see why. > > Right, let me read the code again from that viewpoint.
In my opinion, it would be worthwhile reading the original Bentley and McIlroy paper [1] and using what you learned to write a patch that adds comments throughout the canonical qsort_arg, and perhaps the other variants. [1] http://www.enseignement.polytechnique.fr/informatique/profs/Luc.Maranget/421/09/bentley93engineering.pdf -- Peter Geoghegan -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers