Re: range_agg extremely slow compared to naive implementation in obscure circumstances

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Duncan Sands <duncan(dot)sands(at)deepbluecap(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: range_agg extremely slow compared to naive implementation in obscure circumstances
Date: 2023-02-01 11:57:41
Message-ID: 20230201115741.qfcjbm4jyji4etvn@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2023-Jan-31, David Rowley wrote:

> It might be better if we had multirange_canonicalize() deserialize
> these once and used some representation that could more easily be
> qsorted. I'm not planning on doing any work on it though.

Yeah, maybe it would be possible to have an in-memory representation
that doesn't require any deparsing, and keep the compact representation
to be used only for in-data-page storage. How to do this within the
constraints of the Datum abstraction is not clear to me.

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