Thanks for looking into this.
> With that in mind, I was surprised that your test case showed any
> improvement at all --- it looks like the arrays aren't getting compressed
> for some reason.
>
>
You are right, it seems that they were not getting compressed, probably
because the arrays were "seq
Hadi Moshayedi writes:
> The attached patch improves the performance of array_length() by detoasting
> only the overhead part of the datum.
It looks to me like this would actually make things worse for cases where
the input array wasn't toasted-out-of-line (because it would uselessly
make a copy
