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From Robert Haas
Subject Re: pgsql: Replace the array-style TupleTable data structure with a simple
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In response to pgsql: Replace the array-style TupleTable data structure with a simple  (tgl@postgresql.org (Tom Lane))
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On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@postgresql.org> wrote:
> Log Message:
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> Replace the array-style TupleTable data structure with a simple List of
> TupleTableSlot nodes.  This eliminates the need to count in advance
> how many Slots will be needed, which seems more than worth the small
> increase in the amount of palloc traffic during executor startup.
>
> The ExecCountSlots infrastructure is now all dead code, but I'll remove it
> in a separate commit for clarity.
>
> Per a comment from Robert Haas.

Wow, nice.  That saved a bucketload of code.

...Robert

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