Using HEAD's pg_dump, I see "pg_dump -s regression" taking 5 seconds. On the other hand, running the same executable against the regression database on a 9.2 postmaster takes 1.2 seconds. Looks to me like we broke something performance-wise.
A quick check with oprofile says it's all AllocSetCheck's fault: samples % image name symbol name 87777 83.6059 postgres AllocSetCheck 1140 1.0858 postgres base_yyparse 918 0.8744 postgres AllocSetAlloc 778 0.7410 postgres SearchCatCache 406 0.3867 postgres pg_strtok 394 0.3753 postgres hash_search_with_hash_value 387 0.3686 postgres core_yylex 373 0.3553 postgres MemoryContextCheck 256 0.2438 postgres nocachegetattr 231 0.2200 postgres ScanKeywordLookup 207 0.1972 postgres palloc So maybe I'm nuts to care about the performance of an assert-enabled backend, but I don't really find a 4X runtime degradation acceptable, even for development work. Does anyone want to fess up to having caused this, or do I need to start tracking down what changed? regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers