Re: Manipulating complex types as non-contiguous structures in-memory

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>
Date: 2015-02-15T23:47:41Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I'm going to stick this into the commitfest even though it's not really
> close to being committable; I see some other people doing likewise with
> their pet patches ;-).  What it could particularly do with some reviewing
> help on is exploring the performance changes it creates; what cases does
> it make substantially worse?

It's perfectly reasonable to add stuff that isn't committable yet to
the CF app; the point of the CF app is to track what needs reviewing.

-- 
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company


Commits

  1. Use fast path in plpgsql's RETURN/RETURN NEXT in more cases.

  2. Add support for multiple kinds of external toast datums.