Re: POC: converting Lists into arrays - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: POC: converting Lists into arrays
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Msg-id 20190304220354.qjjalvb3vmpig5cf@momjian.us
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In response to Re: POC: converting Lists into arrays  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: POC: converting Lists into arrays
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On Mon, Mar  4, 2019 at 12:44:41PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> I think that's a separate but also promising thing to attack, and I
> agree that it'd take a lot of work to get there.  I don't think that
> the problem with either parse-tree-copying or list usage is that no
> performance benefits are to be had; I think it's that the amount of
> work required to get those benefits is pretty large.  If it were
> otherwise, somebody likely would have done it before now.

Stupid question, but do we use any kind of reference counter to know if
two subsystems look at a structure, and a copy is required?

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