Add more efficient functions to pqformat API.

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

Commit: 1de09ad8eb1fa673ee7899d6dfbb2b49ba204818
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Date: 2017-10-11T23:01:52Z
Releases: 11.0
Add more efficient functions to pqformat API.

There's three prongs to achieve greater efficiency here:

1) Allow reusing a stringbuffer across pq_beginmessage/endmessage,
   with the new pq_beginmessage_reuse/endmessage_reuse. This can be
   beneficial both because it avoids allocating the initial buffer,
   and because it's more likely to already have an correctly sized
   buffer.

2) Replacing pq_sendint() with pq_sendint$width() inline
   functions. Previously unnecessary and unpredictable branches in
   pq_sendint() were needed. Additionally the replacement functions
   are implemented more efficiently.  pq_sendint is now deprecated, a
   separate commit will convert all in-tree callers.

3) Add pq_writeint$width(), pq_writestring(). These rely on sufficient
   space in the StringInfo's buffer, avoiding individual space checks
   & potential individual resizing.  To allow this to be used for
   strings, expose mbutil.c's MAX_CONVERSION_GROWTH.

Followup commits will make use of these facilities.

Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170914063418.sckdzgjfrsbekae4@alap3.anarazel.de

Files

PathChange+/−
src/backend/libpq/pqformat.c modified +33 −55
src/backend/utils/mb/mbutils.c modified +0 −11
src/include/libpq/pqformat.h modified +164 −4
src/include/mb/pg_wchar.h modified +11 −0

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