Re: 8.3devel slower than 8.2 under read-only load

From: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Guillaume Smet" <guillaume(dot)smet(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Greg Smith" <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: 8.3devel slower than 8.2 under read-only load
Date: 2007-11-26 17:40:34
Message-ID: 874pf8dhwt.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com
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"Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:

> I've written up my suggestion as a 5 line patch, with measured
> performance improvement of about 40% for the varchar case.

A 5-line patch which improves performance by 40% for any case sounds amazing,
but how fragile is that gain? The kind of thing which would be worryign is if
runing a query which uses both varchar and some other ambiguous operator
causes it to lose all its gain.

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