2009/5/29 Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman@gmail.com>:
> 2009/5/29 Adam Ruth <adamruth@mac.com>:
>> Always test your performance assumptions. The plpgsql function is faster
>> than the sql function, a lot faster on smaller arrays.
>>
>> unnest - 10 element array - 100,000 times: 6701.746 ms
>> unnest - 100 element array - 100,000 times: 11847.933 ms
>> unnest - 1000 element array - 100,000 times: 59472.691 ms
>>
>> explode - 10 element array - 100,000 times: 1941.942 ms
>> explode - 100 element array - 100,000 times: 8521.289 ms
>> explode - 1000 element array - 100,000 times: 44980.048 ms
>>
>
Version 8.4 has an internal function unnest(anyarray):
http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/functions-array.html
Osvaldo