Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> We can make markpos fast, if we make the copy lazily in _bt_steppage,
Nice hack. Getting rid of the buffer refcount manipulations is probably
even more useful than avoiding the memcpy.
> I did some micro-benchmarking of merge join performance, see attached
> test. Test results, on my laptop:
> 8_1_STABLE: 1.77 s
> HEAD, with patch: 1.65 s
> HEAD, without patch: 2.46 s
Hm, I don't see a performance regression on my machine, but there is a
measureable improvement with the patch:
8.1 branch: 10.6 s
CVS HEAD: 10.1 s
w/patch: 9.3 s
Patch applied ...
regards, tom lane
