Re: Idea for minor tstore optimization

Added to TODO:

* Avoid tuple some tuple copying in sort routines
 http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-02/msg01206.php


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Tom Lane wrote:
> Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:
> > I notice that several of the call sites of tuplestore_puttuple() start
> > with arrays of datums and nulls, call heap_form_tuple(), and then switch
> > into the tstore's context and call tuplestore_puttuple(), which
> > deep-copies the HeapTuple into the tstore. ISTM it would be faster and
> > simpler to provide a tuplestore_putvalues(), which just takes the datum
> > + nulls arrays and avoids the additional copy.
> 
> Seems reasonable.  Check whether tuplesort should offer the same, while
> you are at it.
> 
>             regards, tom lane
> 
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