Re: abusing plpgsql array variables - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: abusing plpgsql array variables
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Msg-id 17414.1221135918@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: abusing plpgsql array variables  (Artacus <artacus@comcast.net>)
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Artacus <artacus@comcast.net> writes:
>> If I want to pass in a text[] argument to a plpgsql function, at what
>> array size am I asking for problems? 100? 10,000? 100,000?

> Yeah, like you I was pretty worried about how it would handle using
> larger arrays. But I was surprised to find that it did a super job of
> handling even large arrays.

Note that this depends quite a lot on what datatype the array elements
are.  Fixed-width types like int or float should be fast.
Variable-width types like text or numeric, not so much.

            regards, tom lane

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