On 2013-01-12 16:36:39 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> >>> It does *not* combine elog_start and elog_finish into one function if
> >>> varargs are available although that brings a rather measurable
> >>> size/performance benefit.
> 
> >> Since you've apparently already done the measurement: how much?
> >> It would be a bit tedious to support two different infrastructures for
> >> elog(), but if it's a big enough win maybe we should.
> 
> > Imo its pretty definitely a big enough win. So big I have a hard time
> > believing it can be true without negative effects somewhere else.
> 
> Well, actually there's a pretty serious negative effect here, which is
> that when it's implemented this way it's impossible to save errno for %m
> before the elog argument list is evaluated.  So I think this is a no-go.
> We've always had the contract that functions in the argument list could
> stomp on errno without care.
> 
> If we switch to a do-while macro expansion it'd be possible to do
> something like
> 
>       do {
>               int save_errno = errno;
>               int elevel = whatever;
> 
>               elog_internal( save_errno, elevel, fmt, __VA__ARGS__ );
>       } while (0);
> 
> but this would almost certainly result in more code bloat not less,
> since call sites would now be responsible for fetching errno.

the numbers are:
old definition:                                 10393.658ms, 5497912 bytes
old definition + unreachable:                   10011.102ms, 5469144 bytes
stmt, two calls, unreachable:                   10036.132ms, 5468792 bytes
stmt, one call, unreachable:                    9443.612ms,  5462232 bytes
stmt, one call, unreachable, save errno:        9615.863ms,  5489688 bytes

So while not saving errno is unsurprisingly better its still a win.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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