Hi, On 2014-04-20 15:38:23 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Some poking around with oprofile says that much of the added time is > coming from added syscache and typcache lookups, as I suspected. > > I did some further work on the patch to make it possible to cache > the element tuple descriptor across calls for these two functions. > With the attached patch, the first test case comes down to about 335 ms > and the second to about 1475 ms (plpgsql is still leaving some extra > cache lookups on the table). More could be done with some further API > changes, but I think this is about as much as is safe to back-patch.
I unfortunately haven't followed this in detail, but shouldn't it be relatively easily to make this even cheaper by checking for HEAP_HASEXTERNAL? If it's not set we don't need to iterate over the composite's columns, right? Greetings, Andres Freund -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers