Re: PG 15 (and to a smaller degree 14) regression due to ExprEvalStep size

Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
To: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Nikita Glukhov <n.gluhov@postgrespro.ru>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Date: 2022-06-17T03:33:13Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 7:15 PM David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> wrote:
> So, there appears to be no performance regression due to the extra
> indirection. There's maybe even some gains due to the smaller step
> size.

Have you tried this with the insert benchmark [1]?

I've run it myself in the past (when working on B-Tree deduplication).
It's quite straightforward to set up and run.

[1] http://smalldatum.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-insert-benchmark.html
-- 
Peter Geoghegan



Commits

  1. JSON_TABLE: Add support for NESTED paths and columns

  2. Add basic JSON_TABLE() functionality

  3. Add SQL/JSON query functions

  4. Add soft error handling to some expression nodes

  5. Adjust populate_record_field() to handle errors softly

  6. Refactor code used by jsonpath executor to fetch variables

  7. Add more SQL/JSON constructor functions

  8. SQL/JSON: support the IS JSON predicate

  9. SQL/JSON: add standard JSON constructor functions

  10. Add static assertion ensuring sizeof(ExprEvalStep) <= 64 bytes

  11. Remove size increase in ExprEvalStep caused by hashed saops

  12. pgstat: reduce timer overhead by leaving timer running.

  13. expression eval: Fix EEOP_JSON_CONSTRUCTOR and EEOP_JSONEXPR size.

  14. SQL/JSON query functions

  15. Speedup ScalarArrayOpExpr evaluation