Re: Inlining comparators as a performance optimisation

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

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

To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Peter Geoghegan <peter@2ndquadrant.com>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2011-12-03T18:36:04Z

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Speed up conversion of signed integers to C strings.
- 4fc115b2e981 9.1.0 cited
Remove some unnecessary tests of pgstat_track_counts.
- f4d242ef9473 9.1.0 cited
Remove cvs keywords from all files.
- 9f2e21138693 9.1.0 cited
Code cleanup for function prototypes: change two K&R-style prototypes
- b9954fbb4ef2 8.3.0 cited
Use Min() instead of min() in qsort, for consistency and to avoid
- b38900c76776 8.2.0 cited
pgindent run for 8.2.
- f99a569a2ee3 8.2.0 cited
Switch over to using our own qsort() all the time, as has been proposed
- 6edd2b4a91bd 8.2.0 cited

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> OK, so I tried to code this up.  Adding the new amproc wasn't too
> difficult (see attached).  It wasn't obvious to me how to tie it into
> the tuplesort infrastructure, though, so instead of wasting time
> guessing what a sensible approach might be I'm going to use one of my
> lifelines and poll the audience (or is that ask an expert?).

OK, I'll take a whack at improving this over the weekend.

			regards, tom lane