Re: [SQL] EXTERNAL storage and substring on long strings

On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 11:53, Tom Lane wrote:
> Scott Cain <cain(at)cshl(dot)org> writes:
> > At least this appears to work and is much faster, completing substring
> > operations like above in about 0.27 secs (that's about two orders of
> > magnitude improvement!)
>
> I find it really, really hard to believe that a crude reimplementation
> in plpgsql of the TOAST concept could beat the built-in implementation
> at all, let alone beat it by two orders of magnitude.
>
> Either there's something unrealistic about your testing of the
> dna_string function, or your original tests are not causing TOAST to be
> invoked in the expected way, or there's a bug we need to fix. I'd
> really like to see some profiling of the poor-performing
> external-storage case, so we can figure out what's going on.
>
I was really hoping for a "Good job and glad to hear it" from you :-)

I don't think there is anything unrealistic about my function or its
testing, as it is very much along the lines of the types of things we do
now. I will really try to do some profiling this week to help figure
out what is going on.

Scott

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