On 1/4/26 12:21 PM, David Rowley wrote:
> I'd say this is wishful thinking. You're saying that with the overhead
> of planning, executor startup, most of executor run and executor
> shutdown and subsequent cleanup, you're expecting a speedup from
> swapping the order of operations in this function when you're calling
> it once!? That could be true if the function was very expensive, but
> this is not an expensive function. It'll amount to a few dozen
> instructions for the function out of several 10s of millions, when you
> consider the cost of processing the entire query.
On top of this the idea the scalars are a less common thing is dubious.
Why would that be? I would assume it depends on the input data. So even
if it had been a speedup, which perf output does not seem to indicate
that it would be, it would have slowed down some workloads while
speeding up others.
Andreas
