Virtual tuple table slots never need tuple deforming. Therefore, if we
know at expression compilation time, that a certain slot will always
be virtual, there's no need to create a tuple deforming routine for
it.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181105210039.hh4vvi4vwoq5ba2q@alap3.anarazel.de
There's several reasons for this change:
1) It reduces the total size of TupleTableSlot / reduces alignment
padding, making the commonly accessed members fit into a single
cacheline (but we currently do not force proper alignment, so
that's not yet guaranteed to be helpful)
2) Combining the booleans into a flag allows to combine read/writes
from memory.
3) With the upcoming slot abstraction changes, it allows to have core
and extended flags, in a memory efficient way.
Author: Ashutosh Bapat and Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180220224318.gw4oe5jadhpmcdnm@alap3.anarazel.de
Previously it was an int / 4 bytes. The maximum number of attributes
in a tuple is restricted by the maximum value Var->varattno, which is
an AttrNumber/int16. Hence use the same data type for
TupleTableSlot->tts_nvalid.
Author: Ashutosh Bapat
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180220224318.gw4oe5jadhpmcdnm@alap3.anarazel.de
Instead using memset to set tts_isnull, call the new
slot_getmissingattrs().
Also fix a bug (= instead of >=) in the code generation. Normally = is
correct, but when repeatedly deforming fields not in a
tuple (e.g. deform up to natts + 1 and then natts + 2) >= is needed.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180328010053.i2qvsuuusst4lgmc@alap3.anarazel.de
Performing JIT compilation for deforming gains performance benefits
over unJITed deforming from compile-time knowledge of the tuple
descriptor. Fixed column widths, NOT NULLness, etc can be taken
advantage of.
Right now the JITed deforming is only used when deforming tuples as
part of expression evaluation (and obviously only if the descriptor is
known). It's likely to be beneficial in other cases, too.
By default tuple deforming is JITed whenever an expression is JIT
compiled. There's a separate boolean GUC controlling it, but that's
expected to be primarily useful for development and benchmarking.
Docs will follow in a later commit containing docs for the whole JIT
feature.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170901064131.tazjxwus3k2w3ybh@alap3.anarazel.de
Andres Freund