[Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>]

Add support for coordinating record typmods among parallel workers.

Tuples can have type RECORDOID and a typmod number that identifies a blessed
TupleDesc in a backend-private cache.  To support the sharing of such tuples
through shared memory and temporary files, provide a typmod registry in
shared memory.

To achieve that, introduce per-session DSM segments, created on demand when a
backend first runs a parallel query.  The per-session DSM segment has a
table-of-contents just like the per-query DSM segment, and initially the
contents are a shared record typmod registry and a DSA area to provide the
space it needs to grow.

State relating to the current session is accessed via a Session object
reached through global variable CurrentSession that may require significant
redesign further down the road as we figure out what else needs to be shared
or remodelled.

Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0ZtQ-SpsgCyzzYpsXS6e=kZWqk3g5Ygn3MDV7A8dabUA@mail.gmail.com

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/cc5f81366c36b3dd8f02bd9be1cf75b2cc8482bd

Modified Files
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src/backend/access/common/Makefile    |   2 +-
src/backend/access/common/session.c   | 208 +++++++++++
src/backend/access/common/tupdesc.c   |  16 +
src/backend/access/transam/parallel.c |  44 ++-
src/backend/storage/lmgr/lwlock.c     |   8 +-
src/backend/utils/cache/typcache.c    | 634 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
src/backend/utils/init/postinit.c     |   4 +
src/include/access/session.h          |  44 +++
src/include/access/tupdesc.h          |   6 +
src/include/storage/lwlock.h          |   3 +
src/include/utils/typcache.h          |  10 +
src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list      |   4 +
12 files changed, 946 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)


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