Re: proposal: support empty string as separator for string_to_array

2009/7/27 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
> Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> I tested  implementation and it's about 30% faster than using regexp.
>
> In a real application, that's going to be negligible compared to all the
> other costs involved in pushing the data around.  And we still haven't
> seen any in-the-field requests for this functionality, so even if the
> gap were wider, I don't see the point of putting effort into it.
>

This is just possible optimalisation - Maybe Merlin proposal is the
best - we could add this technique to regexp_split_to_array - when is
pattern empty, then we could to use direct char separation - without
any new function or change of current function. And somebody, that use
regexp_split_to_array now will have profit too.

Pavel

>                        regards, tom lane
>