On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Matthew Wakeling (matthew@flymine.org) wrote:
>> The major case I found when writing pl/pgsql was when trying to build
>> arrays row by row. AFAIK when I tried it, adding a row to an array caused
>> the whole array to be copied, which put a bit of a damper on performance.
>
> Using the built-ins now available in 8.4 (array_agg), that copying
> doesn't happen any more.
Thanks. I had wondered if that had been improved.
Matthew
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