Re: 8.4 open item: copy performance regression?

Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com> wrote: 
> Do you have happen to have a build with assertions turned on?
Nope.  I showed my ./configure options upthread, but can confirm with
pg_config:
BINDIR = /usr/local/pgsql-8.4rc1/bin
DOCDIR = /usr/local/pgsql-8.4rc1/share/doc
HTMLDIR = /usr/local/pgsql-8.4rc1/share/doc
INCLUDEDIR = /usr/local/pgsql-8.4rc1/include
PKGINCLUDEDIR = /usr/local/pgsql-8.4rc1/include
INCLUDEDIR-SERVER = /usr/local/pgsql-8.4rc1/include/server
LIBDIR = /usr/local/pgsql-8.4rc1/lib
PKGLIBDIR = /usr/local/pgsql-8.4rc1/lib
LOCALEDIR = /usr/local/pgsql-8.4rc1/share/locale
MANDIR = /usr/local/pgsql-8.4rc1/share/man
SHAREDIR = /usr/local/pgsql-8.4rc1/share
SYSCONFDIR = /usr/local/pgsql-8.4rc1/etc
PGXS = /usr/local/pgsql-8.4rc1/lib/pgxs/src/makefiles/pgxs.mk
CONFIGURE = '--prefix=/usr/local/pgsql-8.4rc1'
'--enable-integer-datetimes' '--enable-debug' '--disable-nls'
'--with-libxml'
CC = gcc
CPPFLAGS = -D_GNU_SOURCE -I/usr/include/libxml2
CFLAGS = -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith
-Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -fno-strict-aliasing
-fwrapv -g
CFLAGS_SL = -fpic
LDFLAGS = -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-rpath,'/usr/local/pgsql-8.4rc1/lib'
LDFLAGS_SL =
LIBS = -lpgport -lxml2 -lz -lreadline -lcrypt -ldl -lm
VERSION = PostgreSQL 8.4rc1
> You can check via psql with
> 
>    show debug_assertions;
OK, we'll do it your way.  :-)
kgrittn@ATHENA:~/postgresql-8.4rc1> psql postgres
psql (8.4rc1)
Type "help" for help.

postgres=# show debug_assertions;debug_assertions
------------------off
(1 row)
-Kevin