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

From Jesper Pedersen
Subject Re: POC: converting Lists into arrays
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Msg-id bbe340c9-76fb-c66d-8a14-73168f0b89b9@redhat.com
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In response to Re: POC: converting Lists into arrays  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Hi,

On 7/1/19 2:44 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Yup, here's a rebase against HEAD (and I also find that check-world shows
> no problems).

Thanks - no further comments.

>  This is pretty much of a pain to maintain, since it changes
> the API for lnext() which is, um, a bit invasive.  I'd like to make a
> decision pretty quickly on whether we're going to do this, and either
> commit this patch or abandon it.
> 

IMHO it is an improvement over the existing API.

>> There is some unneeded MemoryContext stuff in async.c's
>> pg_listening_channels() which should be cleaned up.
> 
> Yeah, there's a fair amount of follow-on cleanup that could be undertaken
> afterwards, but I've wanted to keep the patch's footprint as small as
> possible for the moment.  Assuming we pull the trigger, I'd then go look
> at removing the planner's duplicative lists+arrays for RTEs and such as
> the first cleanup step.  But thanks for the pointer to async.c, I'll
> check that too.
> 

Yeah, I only called out the async.c change, as that function isn't 
likely to change in any of the follow up patches.

Best regards,
  Jesper



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