Change: move GET iterator time conversion out of SQL #2111
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What
Move the ISO time calculations in the "GET" iterators from SQL to C.
Why
Having the iterator do the time conversion is slower when there are many rows with a large offset, because Postgres still does the conversion for every row.
time o m m '<get_info type="nvt" filter="sort-reverse=created rows=10 first=80000"/>' > /tmp/info
patch 0.2, 0.2, 0.16
main 1.8, 2.2, 1.7
Leads to faster SecInfo pages when paging to the end, CPEs in particular.
References
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/queries-limit.html 7.6 LIMIT and OFFSET:
The rows skipped by an OFFSET clause still have to be computed inside the server; therefore a large OFFSET might be inefficient.