Re: POC: converting Lists into arrays

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: POC: converting Lists into arrays
Date: 2019-03-04 22:03:54
Message-ID: 20190304220354.qjjalvb3vmpig5cf@momjian.us
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On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 12:44:41PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> I think that's a separate but also promising thing to attack, and I
> agree that it'd take a lot of work to get there. I don't think that
> the problem with either parse-tree-copying or list usage is that no
> performance benefits are to be had; I think it's that the amount of
> work required to get those benefits is pretty large. If it were
> otherwise, somebody likely would have done it before now.

Stupid question, but do we use any kind of reference counter to know if
two subsystems look at a structure, and a copy is required?

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