Support parallel btree index builds. To make this work, tuplesort.c and logtape.c must also support parallelism, so this patch adds that infrastructure and then applies it to the particular case of parallel btree index builds. Testing to date shows that this can often be 2-3x faster than a serial index build.
The model for deciding how many workers to use is fairly primitive at present, but it's better than not having the feature. We can refine it as we get more experience. Peter Geoghegan with some help from Rushabh Lathia. While Heikki Linnakangas is not an author of this patch, he wrote other patches without which this feature would not have been possible, and therefore the release notes should possibly credit him as an author of this feature. Reviewed by Claudio Freire, Heikki Linnakangas, Thomas Munro, Tels, Amit Kapila, me. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAM3SWZQKM=Pzc=cahzrixkjp2eo5q0jg1sofqqexfq647ji...@mail.gmail.com Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wz=axwqdovvgu7dq856s4r6sjaj6dbn7vmtigkb33n5...@mail.gmail.com Branch ------ master Details ------- https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/9da0cc35284bdbe8d442d732963303ff0e0a40bc Modified Files -------------- contrib/bloom/blinsert.c | 3 +- doc/src/sgml/config.sgml | 44 +- doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml | 12 +- doc/src/sgml/ref/create_index.sgml | 58 ++ doc/src/sgml/ref/create_table.sgml | 4 +- src/backend/access/brin/brin.c | 4 +- src/backend/access/gin/gininsert.c | 2 +- src/backend/access/gist/gistbuild.c | 2 +- src/backend/access/hash/hash.c | 2 +- src/backend/access/hash/hashsort.c | 1 + src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c | 28 +- src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtree.c | 134 +--- src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtsort.c | 878 +++++++++++++++++++++++++- src/backend/access/spgist/spginsert.c | 3 +- src/backend/access/transam/parallel.c | 12 +- src/backend/bootstrap/bootstrap.c | 2 +- src/backend/catalog/heap.c | 2 +- src/backend/catalog/index.c | 123 +++- src/backend/catalog/toasting.c | 1 + src/backend/commands/cluster.c | 3 +- src/backend/commands/indexcmds.c | 7 +- src/backend/executor/execParallel.c | 2 +- src/backend/executor/nodeAgg.c | 6 +- src/backend/executor/nodeSort.c | 2 +- src/backend/optimizer/path/allpaths.c | 18 +- src/backend/optimizer/path/costsize.c | 4 +- src/backend/optimizer/plan/planner.c | 136 ++++ src/backend/postmaster/pgstat.c | 3 + src/backend/storage/file/buffile.c | 61 +- src/backend/storage/file/fd.c | 10 + src/backend/utils/adt/orderedsetaggs.c | 2 + src/backend/utils/init/globals.c | 1 + src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c | 10 + src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample | 3 +- src/backend/utils/probes.d | 2 +- src/backend/utils/sort/logtape.c | 199 +++++- src/backend/utils/sort/tuplesort.c | 595 ++++++++++++++--- src/include/access/nbtree.h | 14 +- src/include/access/parallel.h | 4 +- src/include/access/relscan.h | 1 + src/include/catalog/index.h | 9 +- src/include/miscadmin.h | 1 + src/include/nodes/execnodes.h | 6 +- src/include/optimizer/paths.h | 2 +- src/include/optimizer/planner.h | 1 + src/include/pgstat.h | 1 + src/include/storage/buffile.h | 2 + src/include/storage/fd.h | 1 + src/include/utils/logtape.h | 39 +- src/include/utils/tuplesort.h | 132 +++- src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list | 6 + 51 files changed, 2237 insertions(+), 361 deletions(-)
