Re: Enabling parallelism for queries coming from SQL or other PL functions

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>
Cc: Rafia Sabih <rafia.sabih@enterprisedb.com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-03-21T19:25:59Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 6:36 AM, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 3:36 PM, Rafia Sabih
> <rafia.sabih@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 8:55 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Note this:
>>>
>>>         if (completed || !fcache->returnsSet)
>>>             postquel_end(es);
>>>
>>> When the SQL function doesn't return a set, then we can allow
>>> parallelism even when lazyEval is set, because we'll only call
>>> ExecutorStart() once.  But my impression is that something like this:
>
> How about taking the decision of execute_once based on
> fcache->returnsSet instead of based on lazyEval?
>
> change
> + ExecutorRun(es->qd, ForwardScanDirection, count, !es->lazyEval);
> to
> + ExecutorRun(es->qd, ForwardScanDirection, count, !fcache->returnsSet);
>
> IMHO, Robert have the same thing in mind?

Yeah, something like that.

>>SELECT * FROM blah() LIMIT 3
>>
>>...will trigger three separate calls to ExecutorRun(), which is a
>>problem if the plan is a parallel plan.
>
> And you also need to test this case what Robert have mentioned up thread.

+1

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Robert Haas
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Commits

  1. Improve access to parallel query from procedural languages.

  2. plpgsql: Don't generate parallel plans for RETURN QUERY.

  3. Allow for parallel execution whenever ExecutorRun() is done only once.