Re: JIT compiling with LLVM v9.0

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
Cc: Konstantin Knizhnik <k.knizhnik@postgrespro.ru>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2018-02-02T01:05:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2018-02-01 09:32:17 -0800, Jeff Davis wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 12:03 AM, Konstantin Knizhnik
> <k.knizhnik@postgrespro.ru> wrote:
> > The same problem takes place with old versions of GCC: I have to upgrade GCC
> > to 7.2 to make it possible to compile this code.
> > The problem in not in compiler itself, but in libc++ headers.
> 
> How can I get this branch to compile on ubuntu 16.04? I have llvm-5.0
> and gcc-5.4 installed. Do I need to compile with clang or gcc? Any
> CXXFLAGS required?

Just to understand: You're running in the issue with the header being
included from within the extern "C" {}?  Hm, I've pushed a quick fix for
that.

Other than that, you can compile with both gcc or clang, but clang needs
to be available. Will be guessed from PATH if clang clang-5.0 clang-4.0
(in that order) exist, similar with llvm-config llvm-config-5.0 being
guessed. LLVM_CONFIG/CLANG/CXX= as an argument to configure overrides
both of that. E.g.
./configure --with-llvm LLVM_CONFIG=~/build/llvm/5/opt/install/bin/llvm-config
is what I use, although I also add:
LDFLAGS='-Wl,-rpath,/home/andres/build/llvm/5/opt/install/lib'
so I don't have to install llvm anywhere the system knows about.

Greetings,

Andres Freund


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".