Read from the same worker repeatedly until it returns no tuple.
Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
Read from the same worker repeatedly until it returns no tuple. The original coding read tuples from workers in round-robin fashion, but performance testing shows that it works much better to read enough to empty one queue before moving on to the next. I believe the reason for this is that, with the old approach, we could easily wake up a worker repeatedly to write only one new tuple into the shm_mq each time. With this approach, by the time the process gets scheduled, it has a decent chance of being able to fill the entire buffer in one go. Patch by me. Dilip Kumar helped with performance testing.
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