Re: [HACKERS] parallelize queries containing initplans

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 7:25 AM, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 2:34 AM, Kuntal Ghosh
> <kuntalghosh.2007@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Based on that idea, I have modified the patch such that it will
>>> compute the set of initplans Params that are required below gather
>>> node and store them as bitmap of initplan params at gather node.
>>> During set_plan_references, we can find the intersection of external
>>> parameters that are required at Gather or nodes below it with the
>>> initplans that are passed from same or above query level. Once the set
>>> of initplan params are established, we evaluate those (if they are not
>>> already evaluated) before execution of gather node and then pass the
>>> computed value to each of the workers.   To identify whether a
>>> particular param is parallel safe or not, we check if the paramid of
>>> the param exists in initplans at same or above query level.  We don't
>>> allow to generate gather path if there are initplans at some query
>>> level below the current query level as those plans could be
>>> parallel-unsafe or undirect correlated plans.
>>
>> I would like to mention different test scenarios with InitPlans that
>> we've considered while developing and testing of the patch.
>>
>
> Thanks a lot Kuntal for sharing different test scenarios.
> Unfortunately, this patch doesn't received any review till now, so
> there is no chance of making it in to PostgreSQL-10.  I have moved
> this to next CF.
>

Attached is a rebased version of the patch with below changes:
a. SubplanState now directly stores Subplan rather than ExprState, so
patch needs some adjustment in that regard.
b. While rejecting the paths (based on if there are initplans at level
below the current query level) for parallelism, the rejected paths
were not marked as parallel unsafe.  Due to this in
force_parallel_mode=regress, we were able to add gather node above
parallel unsafe paths.  The modified patch ensures to mark such paths
as parallel unsafe.
c. Added regression test.
d. Improve comments in the code.