> > You'll probably want to do those at a C level, bypassing the executor. I > > would guess that executor overhead will completely swamp the effect of > the > > cache in most cases. > > That seems like it's kind of missing the point. If the tupleDesc > cache saves so little that it's irrelevant when tested through the > executor, it's not a very useful cache. I bet that's not the case, > though. >
Thank you both for your insight. I'll probably hold off on the benchmarks for right now. I didn't have a production reason to worry about the cache, just getting more familiar with the codebase. Thanks again!
