Use appendStringInfoSpaces more
David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
From: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
To: PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-01-19T09:44:36Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Attachments
- use_appendStringInfoSpaces_more.patch (text/plain) patch
- spaces.c (text/plain)
In [1] I noticed a bit of a poor usage of appendStringInfoString which just appends 4 spaces in a loop, one for each indent level of the jsonb. It should be better just to use appendStringInfoSpaces and just append all the spaces in one go rather than appending 4 spaces in a loop. That'll save having to check enlargeStringInfo() once for each loop. I'm aiming this mostly as a cleanup patch, but after looking at the appendStringInfoSpaces code, I thought it could be done a bit more efficiently by using memset instead of using the while loop that keeps track of 2 counters. memset has the option of doing more than a char at a time, which should be useful for larger numbers of spaces. It does seem a bit faster when appending 8 chars at least going by the attached spaces.c file. With -O1 $ ./spaces while 0.536577 seconds memset 0.326532 seconds However, I'm not really expecting much of a performance increase from this change. I do at least want to make sure I've not made anything worse, so I used pgbench to run: select jsonb_pretty(row_to_json(pg_class)::jsonb) from pg_class; perf top says: Master: 0.96% postgres [.] add_indent.part.0 Patched 0.25% postgres [.] add_indent.part.0 I can't really detect a certain enough TPS change over the noise. I expect it might become more significant with more complex json that has more than a single indent level. I could only find 1 other instance where we use appendStringInfoString to append spaces. I've adjusted that one too. David [1] https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvrrFNSm8dF24tmYOZpvo-R5ZP+0FoqVo2XcYhRftehoRQ@mail.gmail.com
Commits
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Use appendStringInfoSpaces in more places
- 9f1ca6ce6596 16.0 landed