Re: Eliminate more detoast copies for packed varlenas

"Brendan Jurd" <direvus@gmail.com> writes:
> On 9/22/07, Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>> Ok, this removes what should be most if not all of the call sites where we're
>> detoasting text or byteas. In particular it gets all the regexp/like functions
>> and all the trim/pad functions. It also gets hashtext and hash_any.

> Looks like there's some more of this in src/tutorial/funcs.c and funcs_new.c.

Well, those are just tutorial code, so I'd vote for keeping it simple.

> On a related note, while I was trawling through header files trying to
> wrap my head around all this toast and varlena business, I found the
> following comment, in fmgr.h and reiterated in postgres.h:
> WARNING: It is only safe to use PG_DETOAST_DATUM_UNPACKED() and
> VARDATA_ANY() if you really don't care about the alignment.
> Shouldn't this be PG_DETOAST_DATUM_PACKED()?

Yup, good catch.  In the context of fmgr.h, it seems like the comment
is more sensible if it refers to the underlying function
pg_detoast_datum_packed (which is what the preceding paragraph is
speaking of), so I made it say that instead.

            regards, tom lane