On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 01:56:24PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Is it worth renaming our qsort to pg_qsort to avoid this? (I'd be > inclined to do that via a macro "#define qsort pg_qsort", not by running > around and changing all the code.)
Redefining a function that is defined in POSIX and present on most systems seems like a bad idea. Not in the least because ELF linking rules mean that if any library (say libssl) in the backend calls qsort, they'll get the postgresql one, rather than the C library like they expect. That seems fragile to me. The #define would be fine, as long as you make sure it's called after the system headers, otherwise the problem isn't fixed. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > litigate.
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