Re: Improve list manipulation in several places

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Richard Guo <guofenglinux(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>, Ranier Vilela <ranier(dot)vf(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Improve list manipulation in several places
Date: 2023-07-03 09:41:07
Message-ID: 81332e7b-6672-048b-3c0d-6a4c3735cdea@enterprisedb.com
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On 09.05.23 05:13, Richard Guo wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 1:26 AM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org
> <mailto:alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>> wrote:
>
> The problem I see is that each of these new functions has a single
> caller, and the only one that looks like it could have a performance
> advantage is list_copy_move_nth_to_head() (which is the weirdest of the
> lot).  I'm inclined not to have any of these single-use functions unless
> a performance case can be made for them.
>
>
> Yeah, maybe this is the reason I failed to devise a query that shows any
> performance gain.  I tried with a query which makes the 'all_pathkeys'
> in sort_inner_and_outer being length of 500 and still cannot see any
> notable performance improvements gained by list_copy_move_nth_to_head.
> Maybe the cost of other parts of planning swamps the performance gain
> here?  Now I agree that maybe 0002 is not worthwhile to do.

I have committed patch 0001. Since you have withdrawn 0002, this closes
the commit fest item.

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