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Re: final patch - plpgsql: for-in-array

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Cédric Villemain <cedric.villemain.debian@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, Jaime Casanova <jaime@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-11-24T06:06:17Z
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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?C=E9dric_Villemain?= <cedric.villemain.debian@gmail.com> writes:
> I think you (Robert) misunderstood dramatically what Pavel try to do.
> Pavel did an excellent optimization work for a specific point. This
> specific point looks crucial for me in the current behavior of
> PostgreSQL[1]. AFAIS Pavel didn't want to implement a genious syntax,
> but an optimization feature.

As near as I can tell, Pavel is bullheadedly insisting on adding new
syntax, not on the optimization aspect of it.  I already pointed out
how he could get 100% of the performance benefit using the existing
syntax, but he doesn't appear to be willing to pursue that route.

			regards, tom lane