Re: Make COPY format extendable: Extract COPY TO format implementations

On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 2:34 PM Sutou Kouhei <kou(at)clear-code(dot)com> wrote:
>
>
> Thanks for the info. Let's use InputFunctionCallSafeWithInfo().
> See that attached patch:
> v2-0001-Reuse-fcinfo-used-in-COPY-FROM.patch
>
> I also attach a patch for COPY TO:
> v1-0001-Reuse-fcinfo-used-in-COPY-TO.patch
>
> I measured the COPY TO patch on my environment with:
> COPY (SELECT 1::int2,2::int2,3::int2,4::int2,5::int2,6::int2,7::int2,8::int2,9::int2,10::int2,11::int2,12::int2,13::int2,14::int2,15::int2,16::int2,17::int2,18::int2,19::int2,20::int2, generate_series(1, 1000000::int4)) TO '/dev/null' \watch c=5
>
> master:
> 740.066ms
> 734.884ms
> 738.579ms
> 734.170ms
> 727.953ms
>
> patched:
> 730.714ms
> 741.483ms
> 714.149ms
> 715.436ms
> 713.578ms
>
> It seems that it improves performance a bit but my
> environment isn't suitable for benchmark. So they may not
> be valid numbers.

My environment is slow (around 10x) but consistent.
I see around 2-3 percent increase consistently.
(with patch 7369.068 ms, without patch 7574.802 ms)

the patchset looks good in my eyes, i can understand it.
however I cannot apply it cleanly against the HEAD.

+/*
+ * Prepare callinfo for InputFunctionCallSafeWithInfo to reuse one callinfo
+ * instead of initializing it for each call. This is for performance.
+ */
+FunctionCallInfoBaseData *
+PrepareInputFunctionCallInfo(void)
+{
+ FunctionCallInfoBaseData *fcinfo;
+
+ fcinfo = (FunctionCallInfoBaseData *) palloc(SizeForFunctionCallInfo(3));

just wondering, I saw other similar places using palloc0,
do we need to use palloc0?