Re: JIT compiling with LLVM v11

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Pierre Ducroquet <p.psql@pinaraf.info>
Date: 2018-03-05T21:37:22Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi,

On 2018-03-05 12:17:30 -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> Writing up a patch that I can actually push.  Thanks both to Thomas and
> Peter for pointing me towards this issue!

After screwing the first attempt at a fix, the second one seems to work
nicely. With optimizations, inlining, etc all core tests pass on
Thomas' machine.

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".