st 2. 12. 2020 v 21:02 odesílatel Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> napsal:

> Dmitry Dolgov <9erthali...@gmail.com> writes:
> >> On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 12:58:51PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> So ... one of the things that's been worrying me about this patch
> >> from day one is whether it would create a noticeable performance
> >> penalty for existing use-cases.  I did a small amount of experimentation
> >> about that with the v35 patchset, and it didn't take long at all to
> >> find that this:
> >> ...
> >> is about 15% slower with the patch than with HEAD.  I'm not sure
> >> what an acceptable penalty might be, but 15% is certainly not it.
>
> > I've tried to reproduce that, but get ~2-4% slowdown (with a pinned
> > backend, no turbo etc). Are there any special steps I've probably
> > missed?
>
> Hmm, no, I just built with --disable-cassert and otherwise my usual
> development options.
>
> I had experimented with some other variants of the test case,
> where the repeated statement is
>
>     a[i] := i;                -- about the same
>     a[i] := a[i-1] + 1;       -- 7% slower
>     a[i] := a[i-1] - a[i-2];  -- 15% slower
>
> so it seems clear that the penalty is on the array fetch not array
> assign side.  This isn't too surprising now that I think about it,
> because plpgsql's array assignment code is untouched by the patch
> (which is a large feature omission BTW: you still can't write
>     jsonb['x'] := y;
>

The refactoring of the left part of the assignment statement in plpgsql
probably can be harder work than this patch. But it should be the next
step.


in plpgsql).
>
>
I tested the last patch on my FC33 Lenovo T520 (I7) and I don't see 15%
slowdown too .. On my comp there is a slowdown of about 1.5-3%. I used your
function arraytest.

Regards

Pavel




>                         regards, tom lane
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