Re: [PATCH] backend: compare word-at-a-time in bcTruelen

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Jeremy Kerr <jk(at)ozlabs(dot)org>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Gurjeet Singh <singh(dot)gurjeet(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] backend: compare word-at-a-time in bcTruelen
Date: 2010-02-23 18:39:56
Message-ID: 29879.1266950396@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> writes:
> hmm I tend to disagree, this patch was specifically done to address a
> hotspot I noticed under a given workload and it helped a lot for that
> workload(like getting 6000qps more is pretty neat imho).
> While people might not use fixed width chars that often(which especially
> for migrated database is imho not true) it is an issue that can be seen
> with a rather popular database related benchmarking tool so we should
> not really dismiss it easily.

Nobody suggested dismissing it. The point was that it hasn't been
tested adequately to justify applying it now.

regards, tom lane

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