Re: BitmapHeapScan streaming read user and prelim refactoring

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: James Hunter <james(dot)hunter(dot)pg(at)gmail(dot)com>, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(at)vondra(dot)me>, Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BitmapHeapScan streaming read user and prelim refactoring
Date: 2025-04-14 17:44:40
Message-ID: CA+TgmoYcitPYDFzFZwk8jkzCbdJw_cE_roQ=YyUuA7wxfstqbQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> The new streaming BHS isn't just issuing probabilistic hints about
> future access obtained from a second iterator. It has just one shared
> iterator connected up to the workers' ReadStreams. Each worker pulls
> a disjoint set of blocks out of its stream, possibly running a bunch
> of IOs in the background as required.

It feels to me like the problem here is that the shared iterator is
connected to unshared read-streams. If you make a shared read-stream
object and connect the shared iterator to that instead, does that
solve this whole problem, or is there more to it?

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Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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