Re: JIT compiling with LLVM v9.0

Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-01-30T04:53:48Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi,

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 10:40 AM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2018-01-29 10:28:18 -0800, Jeff Davis wrote:
>> OK. How about this: are you open to changes that move us in the
>> direction of extensibility later? (By this I do *not* mean imposing a
>> bunch of requirements on you... either small changes to your patches
>> or something part of another commit.)
>
> I'm good with that.
>
>
>> Or are you determined that this always should be a part of core?

> I'm strongly against there not being an in-core JIT. I'm not at all
> against adding APIs that allow to do different JIT implementations out
> of core.

I can live with that.

I recommend that you discuss with packagers and a few others, to
reduce the chance of disagreement later.

> Well, the source would require an actual compiler around. And the
> inlining *just* for the function code itself isn't actually that
> interesting, you e.g. want to also be able to

I think you hit enter too quicly... what's the rest of that sentence?

Regards,
      Jeff Davis


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".