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

Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>

From: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>
To: Rafia Sabih <rafia.sabih@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-03-21T10:36:30Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
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?

>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.

-- 
Regards,
Dilip Kumar
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com


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.