On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Adrian Schreyer <ams214@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> The largest arrays I expect at the moment are more or less sparse
> vectors of around 4.8k elements and I have noticed that the
> input/output (C/C++ extension) does not scale well with the number of
> elements in the array.
>
> Using a function that sums all elements in the array, this is the time
> it takes for ~150k arrays of various sizes (including ordering desc
> and limit 10):
>
> 128: 61ms
> 256: 80ms
> 512: 681ms
> 1024 1065ms
> 2048 7682ms
> 4096 21332ms
hm, I'm not following you exactly -- what sql are you running? This
scales pretty well for me:
select array_dims(array(select generate_series(1,1000000)));
etc
merlin
