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authorTom Lane2003-08-22 20:34:33 +0000
committerTom Lane2003-08-22 20:34:33 +0000
commit29a43f398afdbc8372452010b330f242d9ff298d (patch)
tree7d5da462ef9de68e362ec5e8936dc25c576f2c32 /src/include
parent92ee2528d8bf46739a460e3395057416c53e10d1 (diff)
Tweak grammar to use FastAppend rather than lappend when constructing
expr_lists. This appears to be the only remaining O(N^2) bottleneck in processing many-way 'x IN (a,b,c,...)' conditions.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/include')
-rw-r--r--src/include/nodes/pg_list.h8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/include/nodes/pg_list.h b/src/include/nodes/pg_list.h
index 4d9ce8304b1..8ab22560ce6 100644
--- a/src/include/nodes/pg_list.h
+++ b/src/include/nodes/pg_list.h
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
* Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2003, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
* Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
*
- * $Id: pg_list.h,v 1.40 2003/08/08 21:42:48 momjian Exp $
+ * $Id: pg_list.h,v 1.41 2003/08/22 20:34:33 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -132,6 +132,9 @@ typedef struct List
* FastList is an optimization for building large lists. The conventional
* way to build a list is repeated lappend() operations, but that is O(N^2)
* in the number of list items, which gets tedious for large lists.
+ *
+ * Note: there are some hacks in gram.y that rely on the head pointer (the
+ * value-as-list) being the first field.
*/
typedef struct FastList
{
@@ -144,6 +147,9 @@ typedef struct FastList
( (fl)->head = (l), (fl)->tail = llastnode((fl)->head) )
#define FastListValue(fl) ( (fl)->head )
+#define makeFastList1(fl, x1) \
+ ( (fl)->head = (fl)->tail = makeList1(x1) )
+
/*
* function prototypes in nodes/list.c