On 6/30/17 08:13, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 6/24/17 11:51, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Ah, I was about to suggest the same thing, but I was coming at it from
>> the standpoint of not requiring buffers several times larger than
>> necessary, which could in itself cause avoidable palloc failures.
>>
>> I was going to suggest a small variant actually: run the conversion
>> function an extra time only if the string is long enough to make the
>> space consumption interesting, say
>
> I had thought about something like that, too, but my concern is that we
> then have double the code paths to test. I have run some performance
> tests and I couldn't detect any differences between the variants. So
> unless someone has any other insights, I think I'll go with the proposed
> patch by tomorrow.
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