Re: [WIP] speeding up GIN build with parallel workers

Hi Constantin,

I did a quick review of your patch, and here are my comments:

- This patch applies cleanly to the current HEAD (61d2ebdbf91).

- Code compiles without warnings.

- Currently there's no documentation regarding parallel gin build feature and
provided GUC variables.

- Built indexes work seem to work normally.

Performance
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I've made a few runs on my laptop (i7-4710HQ, default postgresql.conf), here
are the results:

workers avg. time (s)
0 412
4 133
8 81

Looks like 8 workers & a backend do the job 5x times faster than a sole
backend, which is good!

Code style
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There are some things that you've probably overlooked, such as:

> task->heap_oid = heap->rd_id;
> task->index_oid = index->rd_id;

You could replace direct access to 'rd_id' field with the RelationGetRelid
macro.

> static void ginDumpEntry(GinState *ginstate,
> volatile WorkerResult *r

Parameter 'r' is unused, you could remove it.

Some of the functions and pieces of code that you've added do not comply to
the formatting conventions, e. g.

> static int claimSomeBlocks(...
> static GinEntryStack *pushEntry(

>> // The message consists of 2 or 3 parts. iovec allows us to send them as

etc.

Keep up the good work!