Re: realloc suggestion

On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

> Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz> writes:
> >  I again a little look at aset code and I probably found small performance 
> > reserve in small chunks (chunk <= ALLOC_CHUNK_LIMIT) reallocation.
> 
> Hmm.  I wouldn't have thought that realloc got called often enough to be
> worth optimizing, but it does seem to get called a few hundred times
> during the regress tests, so maybe it's worth a little more code to do
> this.  (Looks like most of the realloc calls come from enlargeStringInfo
> while dealing with long query strings --- since in this case the string
> buffer is the only thing yet allocated in QueryContext, the special-case
> check wins.)
> 
> I've committed this change.  Thanks for the suggestion!
I love OpenSource and CVS source distribution model - only couple hours
between idea and official source change :-)
Karel