Speed up plpgsql trigger startup by introducing "promises".

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: fd333bc763ea104f2a2c10c6b0061c996d4a2f5a
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2018-02-14T00:20:37Z
Releases: 11.0
Speed up plpgsql trigger startup by introducing "promises".

Over the years we've accreted quite a few special variables that are
predefined in plpgsql trigger functions.  The cost of initializing these
variables to their defined values turns out to be a significant part of
the runtime of simple triggers; but, undoubtedly, most real-world triggers
never examine the values of most of these variables.

To improve matters, invent the notion of a variable that has a "promise"
attached to it, specifying which of the predetermined values should be
assigned to the variable if anything ever reads it.  This eliminates all
the unneeded startup overhead, in return for a small penalty on accesses
to these variables.

Tom Lane, reviewed by Pavel Stehule

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11986.1514407114@sss.pgh.pa.us

Files

PathChange+/−
src/pl/plpgsql/src/pl_comp.c modified +38 −12
src/pl/plpgsql/src/pl_exec.c modified +219 −115
src/pl/plpgsql/src/pl_funcs.c modified +5 −0
src/pl/plpgsql/src/pl_gram.y modified +3 −0
src/pl/plpgsql/src/plpgsql.h modified +41 −15

Discussion