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Re: Pre-alloc ListCell's optimization

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-05-26T16:38:15Z
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  1. Replace the parser's namespace tree (which formerly had the same

  2. Turns out that my recent elimination of the 'redundant' flatten_andors()

Excerpts from Stephen Frost's message of mar may 24 22:56:21 -0400 2011:
> Greetings,
> 
>   Someone (*cough*Haas*cough) made a claim over beers at PGCon that it
>   would be very difficult to come up with a way to pre-allocate List
>   entries and maintain the current List API.  I'll admit that it wasn't
>   quite as trivial as I had *hoped*, but attached is a proof-of-concept
>   patch which does it.

I think what this patch is mainly missing is a description of how the
new allocation is supposed to work, so that we can discuss the details
without having to reverse-engineer them from the code.

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