2011/6/19 Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.steh...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> Is this profile expected?
>
> I've certainly seen profiles before where the catcache overhead was
> significant.  I don't think that I've seen SearchCatCache() quite this
> high on any of the profiling I've done, but then again I don't tend to
> profile the same things you do, so maybe that's not surprising.  I
> think the interesting question is probably "where are all those calls
> coming from?" and "can we optimize any of them away?" rather than "how
> do we make SearchCatCache() run faster?".   I would be willing to bet
> money that the latter is largely an exercise in futility.

I would not to attack on SearchCatCache. This is relative new area for
me, so I just asked.

The "suspect" part should be inside exec_assign_value

                case PLPGSQL_DTYPE_ARRAYELEM:
                        {

         ....

                                /* Fetch current value of array datum */
                                exec_eval_datum(estate, target,

&arraytypeid, &arraytypmod,

&oldarraydatum, &oldarrayisnull);

                                /* If target is domain over array,
reduce to base type */
                                arraytypeid =
getBaseTypeAndTypmod(arraytypeid, &arraytypmod);

                                /* ... and identify the element type */
                                arrayelemtypeid = get_element_type(arraytypeid);
                                if (!OidIsValid(arrayelemtypeid))
                                        ereport(ERROR,

(errcode(ERRCODE_DATATYPE_MISMATCH),

errmsg("subscripted object is not an array")));

                                get_typlenbyvalalign(arrayelemtypeid,

  &elemtyplen,

  &elemtypbyval,

  &elemtypalign);
                                arraytyplen = get_typlen(arraytypeid);


so any update of array means a access to CatCache.

These data should be cached in some referenced data type info
structure and should be accessed via new exec_eval_array_datum()
function.

Regards

Pavel Stehule


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