Re: Found small issue with OUT params - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Re: Found small issue with OUT params
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Msg-id 20050930234158.GS40138@pervasive.com
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In response to Re: Found small issue with OUT params  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: Found small issue with OUT params
Re: Found small issue with OUT params
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On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 10:53:22AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >
> >So you might notice little performance hit bringing back a million rows, 
> >and most of these type of single OUT params functions only return one 
> >row/value anyway.
> >There would be zero perceivable difference in performance regardless of 
> >the extra overhead for a single value/row.
> 
> Sounds like we need a test case... up for it?

If there is a performance difference my vote is that we bite the bullet
for 8.1 and accept the performance hit rather than settle for
sub-optimal behavior. Much easier to fix the performance penalty down
the road than to fix the behavior.
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