Re: Found small issue with OUT params

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Tony Caduto <tony_caduto(at)amsoftwaredesign(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Found small issue with OUT params
Date: 2005-09-30 23:41:58
Message-ID: 20050930234158.GS40138@pervasive.com
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On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 10:53:22AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >
> >So you might notice little performance hit bringing back a million rows,
> >and most of these type of single OUT params functions only return one
> >row/value anyway.
> >There would be zero perceivable difference in performance regardless of
> >the extra overhead for a single value/row.
>
> Sounds like we need a test case... up for it?

If there is a performance difference my vote is that we bite the bullet
for 8.1 and accept the performance hit rather than settle for
sub-optimal behavior. Much easier to fix the performance penalty down
the road than to fix the behavior.
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