2011/3/11 Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>:
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> What happened with this patch? Alvaro saw a 25x speedup.
There is not conformance about form in this patch. But there are a
FOREACH statement - so if somebody uses this statement, then he will
not have a problems with performance.
Regards
Pavel
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> Pavel Stehule wrote:
>> Hello
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>> this patch remove a multiple detoasting of varlena values in plpgsql.
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>> It is usable mainly for iteration over longer array directly loaded
>> from relation.
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>> It's doesn't have a impact on semantic or behave - it's just eliminate
>> some performance trap.
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>> sample: table 10000 rows one column with array with 1000 string fields:
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>> patched pl time: 6 sec
>> unpatched pl time: 170 sec
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>> This doesn't change my opinion on FOR-IN-ARRAY cycle (is still
>> important for readability) - just remove one critical performance
>> issue
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Pavel Stehule
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