7 Commits (179c97bf587df710f98aa3ce2d95f503b0757e15)

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Robert Haas	179c97bf58	Remove accidentally-committed debugging code. ... Amit Kapila	10 years ago
Robert Haas	89ff5c7f75	Add a dummy return statement to TupleQueueRemap. ... This is unreachable for multiple reasons, but per Amit Kapila the Windows compiler he is using still thinks we can get there.	10 years ago
Robert Haas	fba60e573e	Remove set-but-not-used variables. ... Reported by both Peter Eisentraunt and Kevin Grittner.	10 years ago
Robert Haas	8d7396e509	Try to convince gcc that TupleQueueRemap never falls off the end. ... Without this, MacOS gcc version 4.2.1 isn't convinced.	10 years ago
Robert Haas	6e71dd7ce9	Modify tqueue infrastructure to support transient record types. ... Commit 4a4e6893aa, which introduced this mechanism, failed to account for the fact that the RECORD pseudo-type uses transient typmods that are only meaningful within a single backend. Transferring such tuples without modification between two cooperating backends does not work. This commit installs a system for passing the tuple descriptors over the same shm_mq being used to send the tuples themselves. The two sides might not assign the same transient typmod to any given tuple descriptor, so we must also substitute the appropriate receiver-side typmod for the one used by the sender. That adds some CPU overhead, but still seems better than being unable to pass records between cooperating parallel processes. Along the way, move the logic for handling multiple tuple queues from tqueue.c to nodeGather.c; tqueue.c now provides a TupleQueueReader, which reads from a single queue, rather than a TupleQueueFunnel, which potentially reads from multiple queues. This change was suggested previously as a way to make sure that nodeGather.c rather than tqueue.c had policy control over the order in which to read from queues, but it wasn't clear to me until now how good an idea it was. typmod mapping needs to be performed separately for each queue, and it is much simpler if the tqueue.c code handles that and leaves multiplexing multiple queues to higher layers of the stack.	10 years ago
Robert Haas	d1b7c1ffe7	Parallel executor support. ... This code provides infrastructure for a parallel leader to start up parallel workers to execute subtrees of the plan tree being executed in the master. User-supplied parameters from ParamListInfo are passed down, but PARAM_EXEC parameters are not. Various other constructs, such as initplans, subplans, and CTEs, are also not currently shared. Nevertheless, there's enough here to support a basic implementation of parallel query, and we can lift some of the current restrictions as needed. Amit Kapila and Robert Haas	10 years ago
Robert Haas	4a4e6893aa	Glue layer to connect the executor to the shm_mq mechanism. ... The shm_mq mechanism was built to send error (and notice) messages and tuples between backends. However, shm_mq itself only deals in raw bytes. Since commit 2bd9e412f9, we have had infrastructure for one message to redirect protocol messages to a queue and for another backend to parse them and do useful things with them. This commit introduces a somewhat analogous facility for tuples by adding a new type of DestReceiver, DestTupleQueue, which writes each tuple generated by a query into a shm_mq, and a new TupleQueueFunnel facility which reads raw tuples out of the queue and reconstructs the HeapTuple format expected by the executor. The TupleQueueFunnel abstraction supports reading from multiple tuple streams at the same time, but only in round-robin fashion. Someone could imaginably want other policies, but this should be good enough to meet our short-term needs related to parallel query, and we can always extend it later. This also makes one minor addition to the shm_mq API that didn' seem worth breaking out as a separate patch. Extracted from Amit Kapila's parallel sequential scan patch. This code was originally written by me, and then it was revised by Amit, and then it was revised some more by me.	10 years ago