Re: executor relation handling

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp>, David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Jesper Pedersen <jesper.pedersen@redhat.com>, Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-10-04T20:40:25Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 3:28 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> What we've determined so far in this thread is that workers *do* get
>> their own locks (or did before yesterday), but I'd been supposing that
>> that was accidental not intentional.

> Nope, that was intentional.

Fair enough --- in which case, the patch series we're working on here
was broken to suppose that it could get away with removing that.

As I said, I'll make sure the locking is back before I finish with this.

			regards, tom lane


Commits

  1. Avoid O(N^2) cost in ExecFindRowMark().

  2. Remove some unnecessary fields from Plan trees.

  3. Restore sane locking behavior during parallel query.

  4. Remove more redundant relation locking during executor startup.

  5. In the executor, use an array of pointers to access the rangetable.

  6. Centralize executor's opening/closing of Relations for rangetable entries.

  7. Change executor to just Assert that table locks were already obtained.

  8. Change rewriter/planner/executor/plancache to depend on RTE rellockmode.

  9. Add assertions that we hold some relevant lock during relation open.

  10. Create an RTE field to record the query's lock mode for each relation.