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    Improve performance of index-only scans with many index columns. · 80b9e9c4
    Tom Lane authored
    StoreIndexTuple was a loop over index_getattr, which is O(N^2)
    if the index columns are variable-width, and the performance
    impact is already quite visible at ten columns.  The obvious
    move is to replace that with a call to index_deform_tuple ...
    but that's *also* a loop over index_getattr.  Improve it to
    be essentially a clone of heap_deform_tuple.
    
    (There are a few other places that loop over all index columns
    with index_getattr, and perhaps should be changed likewise,
    but most of them don't seem performance-critical.  Anyway, the
    rest would mostly only be interested in the index key columns,
    which there aren't likely to be so many of.  Wide index tuples
    are a new thing with INCLUDE.)
    
    Konstantin Knizhnik
    
    Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e06b2d27-04fc-5c0e-bb8c-ecd72aa24959@postgrespro.ru
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