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From David Rowley
Subject pgsql: Optimize tuplestore usage for WITH RECURSIVE CTEs
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Msg-id E1sr7j9-001jEp-0o@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Optimize tuplestore usage for WITH RECURSIVE CTEs

nodeRecursiveunion.c makes use of two tuplestores and, until now, would
delete and recreate one of these tuplestores after every recursive
iteration.

Here we adjust that behavior and instead reuse one of the existing
tuplestores and just empty it of all tuples using tuplestore_clear().

This saves some free/malloc roundtrips and has shown a 25-30% performance
improvement for queries that perform very little work between recursive
iterations.

This also paves the way to add some EXPLAIN ANALYZE telemetry output for
recursive common table expressions, similar to what was done in 1eff8279d
and 95d6e9af0.  Previously calling tuplestore_end() would have caused
the maximum storage space used to be lost.

Reviewed-by: Tatsuo Ishii
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvr9yW0YRiK8A2J7nvyT8g17YzbSfOviEWrghazKZbHbig@mail.gmail.com

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/5d56d07ca343a467ce74a042c22c963ea2690eaf

Modified Files
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src/backend/executor/nodeRecursiveunion.c | 19 +++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)


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