Skip allocating hash table in EXPLAIN-only mode.

hlinnaka · hlinnaka · commit 2cccb627f10d · 2020-11-18T12:39:15.000+02:00
Author: Alexey Bashtanov Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/36823f65-050d-ae24-aa4d-a37726998240%40imap.cc
diff --git a/src/backend/executor/nodeAgg.c b/src/backend/executor/nodeAgg.c
@@ -3665,7 +3665,11 @@ ExecInitAgg(Agg *node, EState *estate, int eflags)
 							&aggstate->hash_ngroups_limit,
 							&aggstate->hash_planned_partitions);
 		find_hash_columns(aggstate);
-		build_hash_tables(aggstate);
+
+		/* Skip massive memory allocation if we are just doing EXPLAIN */
+		if (!(eflags & EXEC_FLAG_EXPLAIN_ONLY))
+			build_hash_tables(aggstate);
+
 		aggstate->table_filled = false;
 
 		/* Initialize this to 1, meaning nothing spilled, yet */
