On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 9:26 AM, David Osborne <david@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ah yes sorry: > > I think these cover it... > > CREATE AGGREGATE sum ( > sfunc = array_add, > basetype = INTEGER[], > stype = INTEGER[], > initcond = '{}' > ); > > CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION array_add(int[],int[]) RETURNS int[] AS $$ > -- Add two arrays. > select > ARRAY ( > SELECT coalesce($1[i],0) + coalesce($2[i],0) > FROM ( > select generate_series(least(array_lower($1, 1),array_lower($2, > 1)), greatest(array_upper($1, 1),array_upper($2, 1)), 1) AS i > ) sub > GROUP BY i > ORDER BY i > ); > $$ LANGUAGE sql STRICT IMMUTABLE; You are paying a lot for the convenience of using a sql language function here. If you want much better performance, you would probably have to rewrite it into C. But that would be a drag, and I would try just throwing more CPU at it first. Cheers, Jeff -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance