Re: [HACKERS] Cached plans and statement generalization

On 2017-05-11 22:48:26 +0300, Konstantin Knizhnik wrote:
> On 05/11/2017 09:31 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > > Good point.  I think we need to do some measurements to see if the
> > > parser-only stage is actually significant.  I have a hunch that
> > > commercial databases have much heavier parsers than we do.
> > FWIW, gram.y does show up as significant in many of the profiles I take.
> > I speculate that this is not so much that it eats many CPU cycles, as that
> > the constant tables are so large as to incur lots of cache misses.  scan.l
> > is not quite as big a deal for some reason, even though it's also large.
> > 
> >             regards, tom lane
> Yes, my results shows that pg_parse_query adds not so much overhead:
> 206k TPS for my first variant with string literal substitution and modified query text used as hash key vs.
> 181k. TPS for version with patching raw parse tree constructed by pg_parse_query.

Those numbers and your statement seem to contradict each other?

- Andres