Re: Faster "SET search_path"

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
To: Isaac Morland <isaac(dot)morland(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Faster "SET search_path"
Date: 2023-08-01 05:28:31
Message-ID: f555c41554c7f5ff2699c085836ea94beac09bad.camel@j-davis.com
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On Sat, 2023-07-29 at 12:44 -0400, Isaac Morland wrote:
> Essentially, "just" observe efficiently (somehow) that no change is
> needed, and skip changing it?

I gave this a try and it speeds things up some more.

There might be a surprise factor with an optimization like that,
though. If someone becomes accustomed to the function running fast,
then changing the search_path in the caller could slow things down a
lot and it would be hard for the user to understand what happened.

Also, there are a few implementation complexities because I think we
need to still trigger the same invalidation that happens in
assign_search_path().

Regards,
Jeff Davis

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