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Tom Lane authored
Avoid eating quite so much memory for large inheritance trees, by reclaiming the space used by temporary copies of the original parsetree and range table, as well as the workspace needed during planning. The cost is needing to copy the finished plan trees out of the child memory context. Although this looks like it ought to slow things down, my testing shows it actually is faster, apparently because fewer interactions with malloc() are needed and/or we can do the work within a more readily cacheable amount of memory. That result might be platform-dependent, but I'll take it. Per a gripe from John Papandriopoulos, in which it was pointed out that the memory consumption actually grew as O(N^2) for sufficiently many child tables, since we were creating N copies of the N-element range table.
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