Re: Optimize update of tables with generated columns

On 2019-12-21 07:47, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> When updating a table row with generated columns, we only need to
> recompute those generated columns whose base columns have changed in
> this update and keep the rest unchanged.  This can result in a
> significant performance benefit (easy to reproduce for example with a
> tsvector column).  The required information was already kept in
> RangeTblEntry.extraUpdatedCols; we just have to make use of it.
>
> A small problem is that right now ExecSimpleRelationUpdate() does not
> populate extraUpdatedCols.  That needs fixing first.

Here is an updated patch set that contains a fix for the issue above
(should be backpatched IMO) and the actual performance patch as before.

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