Use static inline functions for float <-> Datum conversions.

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>

Commit: 14cca1bf8e31ed39dbc26dd6c610f1113e759972
Author: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>
Date: 2016-08-31T13:00:28Z
Releases: 10.0
Use static inline functions for float <-> Datum conversions.

Now that we are OK with using static inline functions, we can use them
to avoid function call overhead of pass-by-val versions of Float4GetDatum,
DatumGetFloat8, and Float8GetDatum. Those functions are only a few CPU
instructions long, but they could not be written into macros previously,
because we need a local union variable for the conversion.

I kept the pass-by-ref versions as regular functions. They are very simple
too, but they call palloc() anyway, so shaving a few instructions from the
function call doesn't seem so important there.

Discussion: <dbb82a4a-2c15-ba27-dd0a-009d2aa72b77@iki.fi>

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src/backend/utils/fmgr/fmgr.c modified +6 −57
src/include/postgres.h modified +61 −2