Re: [HACKERS] Custom compression methods

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Alexander Korotkov <a(dot)korotkov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, Ildus Kurbangaliev <i(dot)kurbangaliev(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Custom compression methods
Date: 2021-03-17 18:17:42
Message-ID: 20210317181742.xav6xetlx46j554v@alap3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2021-03-17 13:31:14 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 7:41 AM Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > 0002:
> > - Wrapper over heap_form_tuple and used in ExecEvalRow() and
> > ExecEvalFieldStoreForm()
>
> Instead of having heap_form_flattened_tuple(), how about
> heap_flatten_values(tupleDesc, values, isnull) that is documented to
> modify the values array? Then instead of replacing the
> heap_form_tuple() calls with a call to heap_form_flattened_tuple(),
> you just insert a call to heap_flatten_values() before the call to
> heap_form_tuple(). I think that might be easier for people looking at
> this code in the future to understand what's happening.

OTOH heap_form_flattened_tuple() has the advantage that we can optimize
it further (e.g. to do the conversion to flattened values in fill_val())
without changing the outside API.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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