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    Drop cheap-startup-cost paths during add_path() if we don't need them. · 6d2c8c0e
    Tom Lane authored
    We can detect whether the planner top level is going to care at all about
    cheap startup cost (it will only do so if query_planner's tuple_fraction
    argument is greater than zero).  If it isn't, we might as well discard
    paths immediately whose only advantage over others is cheap startup cost.
    This turns out to get rid of quite a lot of paths in complex queries ---
    I saw planner runtime reduction of more than a third on one large query.
    
    Since add_path isn't currently passed the PlannerInfo "root", the easiest
    way to tell it whether to do this was to add a bool flag to RelOptInfo.
    That's a bit redundant, since all relations in a given query level will
    have the same setting.  But in the future it's possible that we'd refine
    the control decision to work on a per-relation basis, so this seems like
    a good arrangement anyway.
    
    Per my suggestion of a few months ago.
    6d2c8c0e
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