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Improve code inferring length of bitmap for JITed tuple deforming.
While discussing comment improvements (see next commit) by Justin
Pryzby, Tom complained about a few details of the logic to infer the
length of the NULL bitmap when building the JITed tuple deforming
function. That bitmap allows to avoid checking the tuple header's
natts, a check which often causes a pipeline stall
Improvements:
a) As long as missing columns aren't taken into account, we can
continue to infer the length of the NULL bitmap from NOT NULL
columns following it. Previously we stopped at the first missing
column. It's unlikely to matter much in practice, but the
alternative would have been to document why we stop.
b) For robustness reasons it seems better to also check against
attisdropped - RemoveAttributeById() sets attnotnull to false, but
an additional check is trivial.
c) Improve related comments
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20637.1555957068@sss.pgh.pa.us
Backpatch: -
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