Re: Analysis Function

Hi,

Here is code to convert dates from integers without string concatenation:

Edit dateserial.c:

#include "postgres.h"
#include "utils/date.h"
#include "utils/nabstime.h"

#ifdef PG_MODULE_MAGIC
PG_MODULE_MAGIC;
#endif

Datum dateserial(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS);

PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1 (dateserial);

Datum
dateserial(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS) {
int32 p_year = (int32)PG_GETARG_FLOAT8(0);
int32 p_month = PG_GETARG_INT32(1);
int32 p_day = PG_GETARG_INT32(2);

PG_RETURN_DATEADT( date2j( p_year, p_month, p_day ) - POSTGRES_EPOCH_JDATE );
}

Edit Makefile:

MODULES = dateserial
PGXS := $(shell pg_config --pgxs)
include $(PGXS)

Edit inst.sh (optional):

#!/bin/bash

make clean && make && strip *.so && make install &&
/etc/init.d/postgresql-8.4 restart

Run bash inst.sh.

Create a SQL function dateserial:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION dateserial(double precision, integer, integer)
RETURNS date AS
'$libdir/dateserial', 'dateserial'
LANGUAGE 'c' IMMUTABLE STRICT
COST 1;
ALTER FUNCTION dateserial(double precision, integer, integer) OWNER TO postgres;

Test the function:

SELECT dateserial( 2007, 5, 5 )

Using this function, performance increases from 4.4s to 2.8s..

Dave