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* Rewrite interaction of parallel mode with parallel executor support.Robert Haas2015-10-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | In the previous coding, before returning from ExecutorRun, we'd shut down all parallel workers. This was dead wrong if ExecutorRun was called with a non-zero tuple count; it had the effect of truncating the query output. To fix, give ExecutePlan control over whether to enter parallel mode, and have it refuse to do so if the tuple count is non-zero. Rewrite the Gather logic so that it can cope with being called outside parallel mode. Commit 7aea8e4f2daa4b39ca9d1309a0c4aadb0f7ed81b is largely to blame for this problem, though this patch modifies some subsequently-committed code which relied on the guarantees it purported to make.
* Add a Gather executor node.Robert Haas2015-09-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A Gather executor node runs any number of copies of a plan in an equal number of workers and merges all of the results into a single tuple stream. It can also run the plan itself, if the workers are unavailable or haven't started up yet. It is intended to work with the Partial Seq Scan node which will be added in future commits. It could also be used to implement parallel query of a different sort by itself, without help from Partial Seq Scan, if the single_copy mode is used. In that mode, a worker executes the plan, and the parallel leader does not, merely collecting the worker's results. So, a Gather node could be inserted into a plan to split the execution of that plan across two processes. Nested Gather nodes aren't currently supported, but we might want to add support for that in the future. There's nothing in the planner to actually generate Gather nodes yet, so it's not quite time to break out the champagne. But we're getting close. Amit Kapila. Some designs suggestions were provided by me, and I also reviewed the patch. Single-copy mode, documentation, and other minor changes also by me.
* Parallel executor support.Robert Haas2015-09-28
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