datastore: use UNION ALL for postgres list entries query #4111
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Affected functionality
Listing registration entries.
Description of change
This cuts the cost in time, as determined by EXPLAIN ANALYZE, in half. For a database with ~20000 entries and ~50000 selectors the time goes from ~200ms to ~100ms.
The difference between UNION and UNION ALL is that the former also does a DISTINCT step on the entries, removing any duplicates. It's possible I'm missing something simple, but I don't think that actually does anything for us here since most of the sub-queries also return an unique primary key so they are already unique.
Similar change can probably be done for the MySQL CTE query, but I haven't tested that yet. Can do that if this is considered an acceptable change.