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Re: JIT compiling with LLVM v12.2

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-03-21T21:45:38Z
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Hi,

On 2018-03-22 09:31:12 +1300, Thomas Munro wrote:
> Aside from whatever problem is causing this, we can see that there is
> no top-level handling of exceptions.  That's probably fine if we are
> in a no throw scenario (unless there is something seriously corrupted,
> as is probably the case here), and it seems that we must be because
> we're accessing this code via its C API.

Yea, it should only happen in abort() type situations. Notably LLVM
doesn't even default to enabling exceptions...

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".