From: | Daniel Farina <drfarina(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)krosing(dot)net>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Daniel Farina <dfarina(at)truviso(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [PATCH 4/4] Add tests to dblink covering use of COPY TO FUNCTION |
Date: | 2009-11-25 05:42:15 |
Message-ID: | 7b97c5a40911242142s178939f5lf6295d008dd40c0b@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> 2009/11/25 Daniel Farina <drfarina(at)gmail(dot)com>:
>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>> It depends on design. I don't thing so internal is necessary. It is
>>> just wrong design.
>>
>> Depends on how lean you want to be when doing large COPY...right now
>> the cost is restricted to having to call a function pointer and a few
>> branches. If you want to take SQL values, then the semantics of
>> function calling over a large number of rows is probably notably more
>> expensive, although I make no argument against the fact that the
>> non-INTERNAL version would give a lot more people more utility.
>
> I believe so using an "internal" minimalize necessary changes in COPY
> implementation. Using a funcapi needs more work inside COPY - you
> have to take some functionality from COPY to stream functions.
> Probably the most slow operations is parsing - calling a input
> functions. This is called once every where. Second slow operation is
> reading from network - it is same. So I don't see too much reasons,
> why non internal implementation have to be significant slower than
> your actual implementation. I am sure, so it needs more work.
You are probably right. We could try coercing to bytea and back out
to bytes, although it seems like a superfluous cost to force
*everyone* to pay just to get the same bytes to a network buffer.
fdr
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