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Avoiding introspection queries for built-in array types
Hi, and thanks for all the work on asyncpg! 👋
I’ve noticed that fresh connections usually emit introspection queries even for statements involving simple arrays of integers.
Looking at the code in init_array_codecs, asyncpg seems to initialize only the core codecs for _oid and _text (as mentioned in the comment, “to make type introspection query work”).
https://github.com/MagicStack/asyncpg/blob/5b14653e0b447d956aa01ec658562138e19f0293/asyncpg/protocol/codecs/array.pyx#L861-L875
I was wondering: was there a particular reason that asyncpg doesn’t include more built-in types there? From my perspective, types like _int2, _int4, _int8, _float4, _float8, _bool, and _char are very commonly used in queries. Including them might avoid a lot of introspection queries on new connections.
Is this something that could be considered, or are there trade-offs I might be missing?
