Hi Matheus, I try to use your partition_insert_trigger_spi.c code for testing SPI partitionning. But at execution time the *trigdata->tg_trigger->tgargs* pointer is null. Do you know why ? Thanks a lot Best Reagrds Ali Pouya
2013/1/11 Matheus de Oliveira <matioli.math...@gmail.com> > > On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Heikki Linnakangas < > hlinnakan...@vmware.com> wrote: > >> On 10.01.2013 21:48, Matheus de Oliveira wrote: >> >>> I have made a small modification to keep the plans, and it got from >>> 33957.768ms to 43782.376ms. >>> >> >> If I'm reading results.txt correctly, the avg runtimes are: >> >> C and SPI_execute_with_args: 58567.708 ms >> C and SPI_(prepare/keepplan/execute_**plan): 43782.376 ms >> C and heap_insert: 33957.768 ms >> >> So switching to prepared plans helped quite a lot, but it's still slower >> than direct heap_inserts. >> >> > Humm... You are right, I misread what it before, sorry. The 33957.768ms > was with heap_insert. > > > >> One thing that caught my eye: >> >> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION partition_insert_trigger_spi() >>> RETURNS trigger >>> LANGUAGE C >>> VOLATILE STRICT >>> AS 'partition_insert_trigger_spi'**,'partition_insert_trigger_**spi' >>> SET DateStyle TO 'ISO'; >>> >> >> Calling a function with SET options has a fair amount of overhead, to >> set/restore the GUC on every invocation. That should be avoided in a >> performance critical function like this. >> >> > I (stupidly) used SPI_getvalue [1] and expected it to always return as > YYYY-MM-DD, but them I remembered it would do that only with DateStyle=ISO. > > But the truth is that I couldn't see any overhead, because the function > was without that on my first tests, and after that I saw no difference on > the tests. I think I should use SPI_getbinvalue instead, but I don't know > how to parse the result to get year and month, any help on that? > > [1] > https://github.com/matheusoliveira/pg_partitioning_tests/blob/master/src/spi/partition_insert_trigger_spi.c#L103 > > Regards, > > -- > Matheus de Oliveira > Analista de Banco de Dados > Dextra Sistemas - MPS.Br nĂvel F! > www.dextra.com.br/postgres > >