Re: Use bsearch() instead of a manual binary search in syscache.c
Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
From: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
To: Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
Cc: cca5507@qq.com, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2025-11-08T13:24:34Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Sun, Nov 9, 2025 at 1:12 AM Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at> wrote: > cca5507 <cca5507@qq.com> wrote: > > I make a patch for the $subject, which make the code simpler, thoughts? > > I proposed something like that earlier [1] but did not get too far. The short > discussion might be useful for you though. One factor is that libc bsearch() implementations might not all be header-only and inlineable. I vaguely recall that being discussed in some round of hacking on qsort() and qunique().