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Re: [HACKERS] choose_bitmap_and again (was Re: Strangely Variable Query Performance)



"Dann Corbit" <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com> writes:
> Instead of sorting, I suggest the quickselect() algorithm, which is
> O(n).

What for?  Common cases have less than half a dozen entries.  That is
not the place we need to be spending engineering effort --- what we
need to worry about is what's the choice algorithm, not implementation
details.

			regards, tom lane



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