Re: [PATCH] backend: compare word-at-a-time in bcTruelen

Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc> writes:
> hmm I tend to disagree, this patch was specifically done to address a 
> hotspot I noticed under a given workload and it helped a lot for that 
> workload(like getting 6000qps more is pretty neat imho).
> While people might not use fixed width chars that often(which especially 
> for migrated database is imho not true) it is an issue that can be seen 
> with a rather popular database related benchmarking tool so we should 
> not really dismiss it easily.

Nobody suggested dismissing it.  The point was that it hasn't been
tested adequately to justify applying it now.
        regards, tom lane