Re: Idea for minor tstore optimization

Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:
> I notice that several of the call sites of tuplestore_puttuple() start
> with arrays of datums and nulls, call heap_form_tuple(), and then switch
> into the tstore's context and call tuplestore_puttuple(), which
> deep-copies the HeapTuple into the tstore. ISTM it would be faster and
> simpler to provide a tuplestore_putvalues(), which just takes the datum
> + nulls arrays and avoids the additional copy.

Seems reasonable.  Check whether tuplesort should offer the same, while
you are at it.
        regards, tom lane