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

From: "Guillaume Smet" <guillaume(dot)smet(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Gregory Stark" <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(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 00:54:44
Message-ID: 1d4e0c10711251654v14462479x41a61ba50511518b@mail.gmail.com
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On Nov 26, 2007 1:35 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> The cost of resolving ambiguous operators has been an issue for a long
> time, of course, but it seems particularly bad in this case --- gprof
> blames 37% of the runtime on oper_select_candidate(). It might be time
> to think about caching the results of operator searches somehow. Too
> late for 8.3 though.

From what you say, I understand we can't even find a workaround for
8.3 to improve the situation while waiting for a cleaner solution in
8.4+?

At least, I'm glad we finally found an explanation for this problem.

Thanks.

--
Guillaume

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