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Exclude build dependency calculation when creating the pipeline

What does this MR do?

In this MR, we exclude the build dependency calculation when creating a pipeline. This will help us to reduce the number of SQL queries when creating a pipeline.

Related to #326475 (closed)

How does it help pipeline creation performance?

In the step of Gitlab::Ci::Pipeline::Chain::Seed, the method scoped_variables is called for every job. The method scoped_variables depends on dependency_variables.

variables.concat(dependency_variables) if dependencies
Call trace:

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We had these queries;

Ci::Build Load (0.5ms)  SELECT "ci_builds".* FROM "ci_builds" WHERE "ci_builds"."type" = 'Ci::Build' AND "ci_builds"."commit_id" IS NULL AND ("ci_builds"."retried" = FALSE OR "ci_builds"."retried" IS NULL) AND (stage_idx < 1)
Ci::Build Load (0.8ms)  SELECT "ci_builds".* FROM "ci_builds" WHERE "ci_builds"."type" = 'Ci::Build' AND "ci_builds"."commit_id" IS NULL AND ("ci_builds"."retried" = FALSE OR "ci_builds"."retried" IS NULL) AND (stage_idx < 1)
Ci::Build Load (0.6ms)  SELECT "ci_builds".* FROM "ci_builds" WHERE "ci_builds"."type" = 'Ci::Build' AND "ci_builds"."commit_id" IS NULL AND ("ci_builds"."retried" = FALSE OR "ci_builds"."retried" IS NULL) AND (stage_idx < 2)
Ci::Build Load (0.6ms)  SELECT "ci_builds".* FROM "ci_builds" WHERE "ci_builds"."type" = 'Ci::Build' AND "ci_builds"."commit_id" IS NULL AND ("ci_builds"."retried" = FALSE OR "ci_builds"."retried" IS NULL) AND (stage_idx < 3)
Ci::Build Load (0.6ms)  SELECT "ci_builds".* FROM "ci_builds" WHERE "ci_builds"."type" = 'Ci::Build' AND "ci_builds"."commit_id" IS NULL AND ("ci_builds"."retried" = FALSE OR "ci_builds"."retried" IS NULL) AND (stage_idx < 3)
Ci::Build Load (0.7ms)  SELECT "ci_builds".* FROM "ci_builds" WHERE "ci_builds"."type" = 'Ci::Build' AND "ci_builds"."commit_id" IS NULL AND ("ci_builds"."retried" = FALSE OR "ci_builds"."retried" IS NULL) AND (stage_idx < 4)
Ci::Build Load (0.7ms)  SELECT "ci_builds".* FROM "ci_builds" WHERE "ci_builds"."type" = 'Ci::Build' AND "ci_builds"."commit_id" IS NULL AND ("ci_builds"."retried" = FALSE OR "ci_builds"."retried" IS NULL) AND (stage_idx < 4)

You may notice that we search for "ci_builds"."commit_id" IS NULL 🤦

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Edited by Furkan Ayhan

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