Re: json api WIP patch

On 01/14/2013 11:32 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
>
> So, how much performance does this lose on json_in() on a large
> cstring, as compared with master?

That's a good question. I'll try to devise a test.

>
> I can't shake the feeling that this is adding a LOT of unnecessary
> data copying. For one thing, instead of copying every single lexeme
> (including the single-character ones?) out of the original object, we
> could just store a pointer to the offset where the object starts and a
> length, instead of copying it.

In the pure pares case (json_in, json_reccv) nothing extra should be
copied. On checking this after reading the above I found that wasn't
quite the case, and some lexemes (scalars and field names, but not
punctuation) were being copied when not needed. I have made a fix (see
<https://bitbucket.org/adunstan/pgdevel/commits/139043dba7e6b15f1f9f7675732bd9dae1fb6497>)
which I will include in the next version I publish.

In the case of string lexemes, we are passing back a de-escaped version,
so just handing back pointers to the beginning and end in the input
string doesn't work.

>
> This is also remarkably thin on comments.

Fair criticism. I'll work on that.

Thanks for looking at this.

cheers

andrew