Improve performance of our private version of qsort. Per recent testing,

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: a155814e373fde80e7fae7d240bd100370c3b2b3
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2006-03-21T19:49:19Z
Releases: 8.1.4
Improve performance of our private version of qsort.  Per recent testing,
the logic it contained to switch to insertion sort for near-sorted input was
in fact a big loss, because it could fairly easily be fooled into applying
insertion sort to large subfiles that weren't all that well ordered.  Remove
that, and instead add a simple check for already-perfectly-sorted input, as
per suggestion from Dann Corbit.  This adds at worst O(N*lgN) overhead, and
usually far less, while sometimes allowing a subfile sort to finish in O(N)
time.  Preliminary testing says this is an improvement over the basic
Bentley & McIlroy code for many nonrandom inputs, and it costs almost
nothing when the input is random.

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