Make nodeSort.c use Datum sorts for single column sorts
Datum sorts can be significantly faster than tuple sorts, especially when
the data type being sorted is a pass-by-value type. Something in the
region of 50-70% performance improvements appear to be possible.
Just in case there's any confusion; the Datum sort is only used when the
targetlist of the Sort node contains a single column, not when there's a
single column in the sort key and multiple items in the target list.
Author: Ronan Dunklau
Reviewed-by: James Coleman, David Rowley, Ranier Vilela, Hou Zhijie
Tested-by: John Naylor
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3177670.itZtoPt7T5@aivenronan
Branch
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master
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/91e9e89dccdfdf4216953d3d8f5515dcdef177fb
Modified Files
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src/backend/executor/nodeSort.c | 106 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
src/include/nodes/execnodes.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 82 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)