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In the wake of commit 1cff1b95a, the obvious way to sort a List is to apply qsort() directly to the array of ListCells. list_qsort was building an intermediate array of pointers-to-ListCells, which we no longer need, but getting rid of it forces an API change: the comparator functions need to do one less level of indirection. Since we're having to touch the callers anyway, let's do two additional changes: sort the given list in-place rather than making a copy (as none of the existing callers have any use for the copying behavior), and rename list_qsort to list_sort. It was argued that the old name exposes more about the implementation than it should, which I find pretty questionable, but a better reason to rename it is to be sure we get the attention of any external callers about the need to fix their comparator functions. While we're at it, change four existing callers of qsort() to use list_sort instead; previously, they all had local reinventions of list_qsort, ie build-an-array-from-a-List-and-qsort-it. (There are some other places where changing to list_sort perhaps would be worthwhile, but they're less obviously wins.) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/29361.1563220190@sss.pgh.pa.us
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