Re: Parallel Sort

From: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Parallel Sort
Date: 2013-05-14 14:35:01
Message-ID: 20130514143501.GA223910@tornado.leadboat.com
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On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 07:55:16PM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On 13 May 2013 15:28, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > The heavyweight locking mechanism will need to be aware of the association
> > between the master and its workers.
>
> Not sure I can see why that would be true.
>
> ISTM that the workers need to be restricted in various ways from a
> full-functioned master. If the workers can do things that conflict
> with the master and/or each other, we're going to have all kinds of
> hurt.
>
> The key is going to be deciding what the restrictions are and then
> working out how to enforce them.

Yes, specific lock manager needs will depend on what we permit workers to do.

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Noah Misch
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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