Optimize the content of the list of archived workflows sent to front-end

[terrytangyuan]

Summary

Currently, we retrieve the list of both live workflows and archived workflows where each workflow contains the entire workflow object, including spec, status, etc. Some of this information may not be needed for the workflow list view (they are only required for workflow details page), but they take up a lot of memory, which might overload the UI.

We should only return the list of workflows with the required information from each workflow object.

Related #12025

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[agilgur5]

We do some server-side filtering on the fields already

We should only return the list of workflows with the required information from each workflow object.

Since it is the same API used by everything else, this feature is for more server-side filtering that the UI could use?

[terrytangyuan]

Correct

[agilgur5]

So I didn't think there was much room to improve this (but I haven't looked too closely), but I did discover a possible performance regression with this on the Archived Workflow side: #11121 (comment) -- all fields are getting selected there

[terrytangyuan]

Not needed anymore due to improvements in #13021

[agilgur5]

Actually, this was resolved in #12912 per the regression I noted above