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Tom Lane f97aebd162 Revise TupleTableSlot code to avoid unnecessary construction and disassembly
of tuples when passing data up through multiple plan nodes.  A slot can now
hold either a normal "physical" HeapTuple, or a "virtual" tuple consisting
of Datum/isnull arrays.  Upper plan levels can usually just copy the Datum
arrays, avoiding heap_formtuple() and possible subsequent nocachegetattr()
calls to extract the data again.  This work extends Atsushi Ogawa's earlier
patch, which provided the key idea of adding Datum arrays to TupleTableSlots.
(I believe however that something like this was foreseen way back in Berkeley
days --- see the old comment on ExecProject.)  A test case involving many
levels of join of fairly wide tables (about 80 columns altogether) showed
about 3x overall speedup, though simple queries will probably not be
helped very much.

I have also duplicated some code in heaptuple.c in order to provide versions
of heap_formtuple and friends that use "bool" arrays to indicate null
attributes, instead of the old convention of "char" arrays containing either
'n' or ' '.  This provides a better match to the convention used by
ExecEvalExpr.  While I have not made a concerted effort to get rid of uses
of the old routines, I think they should be deprecated and eventually removed.
2005-03-16 21:38:10 +00:00
config Clean up printf arg-control test, per Kurt Roeckx. 2005-02-24 01:34:45 +00:00
contrib Adjust the API for aggregate function calls so that a C-coded function 2005-03-12 20:25:06 +00:00
doc Revise TupleTableSlot code to avoid unnecessary construction and disassembly 2005-03-16 21:38:10 +00:00
src Revise TupleTableSlot code to avoid unnecessary construction and disassembly 2005-03-16 21:38:10 +00:00
aclocal.m4 Add new auto-detection of thread flags. 2004-04-23 18:15:55 +00:00
configure Define snprintf() to call pg_snprintf() so our own snprintf-like 2005-03-11 17:20:35 +00:00
configure.in Define snprintf() to call pg_snprintf() so our own snprintf-like 2005-03-11 17:20:35 +00:00
COPYRIGHT Tag appropriate files for rc3 2004-12-31 22:04:05 +00:00
GNUmakefile.in please find attached an alternate submission which addresses open item 2004-10-06 08:50:02 +00:00
Makefile please find attached an alternate submission which addresses open item 2004-10-06 08:50:02 +00:00
README Remove more traces of libpgtcl from the source tree. Also, make some 2004-10-01 02:00:44 +00:00
README.CVS Some further editorializing on README.CVS. 2004-03-28 06:09:08 +00:00

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