Re: range_agg extremely slow compared to naive implementation in obscure circumstances

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Cc: David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Duncan Sands <duncan(dot)sands(at)deepbluecap(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: range_agg extremely slow compared to naive implementation in obscure circumstances
Date: 2023-02-01 14:51:11
Message-ID: 1367182.1675263071@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
> On 2023-Jan-31, David Rowley wrote:
>> It might be better if we had multirange_canonicalize() deserialize
>> these once and used some representation that could more easily be
>> qsorted. I'm not planning on doing any work on it though.

> Yeah, maybe it would be possible to have an in-memory representation
> that doesn't require any deparsing, and keep the compact representation
> to be used only for in-data-page storage. How to do this within the
> constraints of the Datum abstraction is not clear to me.

Perhaps the "expanded datum" mechanism would serve?

src/include/utils/expandeddatum.h

It might be too heavyweight for this application, but I'm not sure.

regards, tom lane

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