On 12/21/2016 04:14 AM, Jim Nasby wrote:
> Why do functions that accept composite types delay type resolution until
> execution? I have a naive patch that speeds up plpy.execute() by 8% by
> caching interred python strings for the dictionary key names (which are
> repeated over and over). The next step is to just pre-allocate those
> strings as appropriate for the calling context, but it's not clear how
> to handle that for input arguments.
Does your patch handle "ALTER TYPE name ADD ATTRIBUTE ..."? My immediate
guess would be that it could be a cache invalidation thing.
Andreas