Robert,
> It seems there's at least one more thing to worry about here, which is
> the overhead of this computation when CSV logging is in use. If no
> SET ROLE or SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION commands are in use, the code
> will call show_role(), which will return "none". We'll then strcmp()
> that against "none" and decide to call show_session_authorization(),
> which will call strtoul() to find the comma separator and then return
> a pointer to the string that follows it. Now, none of that is
> enormously expensive, so maybe it's not worth worrying about, but
> since logging can be a hotspot, I thought I'd mention it and solicit
> an opinion on whether that's likely to be a problem in practice.
That seems like enough to need a performance test. No clear ideas here
on how we'd measure the overhead of that accurately, though. Suggestions?
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