Take fewer snapshots.

Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>

Commit: d573e239f03506920938bf0be56c868d9c3416da
Author: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-12-21T14:16:55Z
Releases: 9.2.0
Take fewer snapshots.

When a PORTAL_ONE_SELECT query is executed, we can opportunistically
reuse the parse/plan shot for the execution phase.  This cuts down the
number of snapshots per simple query from 2 to 1 for the simple
protocol, and 3 to 2 for the extended protocol.  Since we are only
reusing a snapshot taken early in the processing of the same protocol
message, the change shouldn't be user-visible, except that the remote
possibility of the planning and execution snapshots being different is
eliminated.

Note that this change does not make it safe to assume that the parse/plan
snapshot will certainly be reused; that will currently only happen if
PortalStart() decides to use the PORTAL_ONE_SELECT strategy.  It might
be worth trying to provide some stronger guarantees here in the future,
but for now we don't.

Patch by me; review by Dimitri Fontaine.

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