As to the point of whether it actually helps or not ... on gcc 6.3.1 (Fedora 25), yes it does. Seems to be one "jmp *something" per EEO_NEXT or EEO_JUMP.
on gcc 4.4.7 (RHEL 6), it makes things *WORSE*. We go from about half of the dispatches getting routed through a common location, to *all* of them (except one; for some odd reason the first EEO_NEXT in EEOP_NULLIF survives as a separate jump). This seems like a bug, but there it is. So this means we'd need some serious research to decide whether to apply it. And I'm suspecting we'd end up with a compiler version test. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers