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Re: JIT compiling with LLVM v9.0

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>, Konstantin Knizhnik <k.knizhnik@postgrespro.ru>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2018-02-02T10:08:40Z
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Hi,

On 2018-02-02 18:22:34 +1300, Thomas Munro wrote:
> The clang that was used for bitcode was the system /usr/bin/clang,
> version 4.0.  Is it a problem that I used that for compiling the
> bitcode, but LLVM5 for JIT?  I actually tried
> CLANG=/usr/local/llvm50/bin/clang but ran into weird failures I
> haven't got to the bottom of at ThinLink time so I couldn't get as far
> as a running system.

You're using thinlto to compile pg? Could you provide what you pass to
configure for that? IIRC I tried that a while ago and ran into some
issues with us creating archives (libpgport, libpgcommon).

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".