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    Allow tupleslots to have a fixed tupledesc, use in executor nodes. · ad7dbee3
    Andres Freund authored
    The reason for doing so is that it will allow expression evaluation to
    optimize based on the underlying tupledesc. In particular it will
    allow to JIT tuple deforming together with the expression itself.
    
    For that expression initialization needs to be moved after the
    relevant slots are initialized - mostly unproblematic, except in the
    case of nodeWorktablescan.c.
    
    After doing so there's no need for ExecAssignResultType() and
    ExecAssignResultTypeFromTL() anymore, as all former callers have been
    converted to create a slot with a fixed descriptor.
    
    When creating a slot with a fixed descriptor, tts_values/isnull can be
    allocated together with the main slot, reducing allocation overhead
    and increasing cache density a bit.
    
    Author: Andres Freund
    Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171206093717.vqdxe5icqttpxs3p@alap3.anarazel.de
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