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Re: JIT compiling with LLVM v11

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Catalin Iacob <iacobcatalin@gmail.com>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Pierre Ducroquet <p.psql@pinaraf.info>
Date: 2018-03-15T16:33:08Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2018-03-15 17:19:23 +0100, Catalin Iacob wrote:
>> Indeed. It might be a bit awkward for packagers to depend on something
>> from Software Collections, for example because they come as separate
>> trees in /opt that are by default not in your path or dynamic loader
>> path - one needs to run everything via a scl wrapper or source the
>> /opt/rh/llvm-toolset-7/enable file to get the appropriate PATH and
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH settings, But it seems doable.

> It'd be just for clang, and they're not *forced* to do it, it's an
> optional dependency. So I think I'm ok with that.

The "software collections" stuff was still in its infancy when I left
Red Hat, so things might've changed, but I'm pretty sure at the time
it was verboten for any mainstream package to depend on an SCL one.

But they very probably wouldn't want postgresql depending on a
compiler package even if the dependency was mainstream, so I rather
doubt that you'll ever see an --enable-jit PG build out of there,
making this most likely moot as far as the official RH package goes.
I don't know what Devrim's opinion might be about PGDG.

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. Improve JIT docs.

  2. Add documentation for the JIT feature.

  3. Add EXPLAIN support for JIT.

  4. Add inlining support to LLVM JIT provider.

  5. JIT tuple deforming in LLVM JIT provider.

  6. Add FIELDNO_* macro designating offset into structs required for JIT.

  7. Add expression compilation support to LLVM JIT provider.

  8. Expand list of synchronized types and functions in LLVM JIT provider.

  9. Add helpers for emitting LLVM IR.

  10. Basic planner and executor integration for JIT.

  11. Debugging and profiling support for LLVM JIT provider.

  12. Support for optimizing and emitting code in LLVM JIT provider.

  13. Add file containing extensions of the LLVM C API.

  14. Basic JIT provider and error handling infrastructure.

  15. Add configure infrastructure (--with-llvm) to enable LLVM support.

  16. Add C++ support to configure.

  17. Add PGAC_PROG_VARCC_VARFLAGS_OPT autoconf macro.

  18. Fix VM buffer pin management in heap_lock_updated_tuple_rec().

  19. Allow tupleslots to have a fixed tupledesc, use in executor nodes.

  20. Expression evaluation based aggregate transition invocation.

  21. Perform slot validity checks in a separate pass over expression.

  22. Rely on executor utils to build targetlist for DML RETURNING.

  23. Refer to OS X as "macOS", except for the port name which is still "darwin".