On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Stephen Frost wrote:
* Matthew Wakeling (matt...@flymine.org) wrote:
The major case I found when writing pl/pgsql was when trying to build
arrays row by row. AFAIK when I tried it, adding a row to an array caused
the whole array to be copied, which put a bit of a damper on performance.

Using the built-ins now available in 8.4 (array_agg), that copying
doesn't happen any more.

Thanks. I had wondered if that had been improved.

Matthew

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