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Commit 6e71dd7c authored by Robert Haas's avatar Robert Haas
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Modify tqueue infrastructure to support transient record types.

Commit 4a4e6893, which introduced this
mechanism, failed to account for the fact that the RECORD pseudo-type
uses transient typmods that are only meaningful within a single
backend.  Transferring such tuples without modification between two
cooperating backends does not work.  This commit installs a system
for passing the tuple descriptors over the same shm_mq being used to
send the tuples themselves.  The two sides might not assign the same
transient typmod to any given tuple descriptor, so we must also
substitute the appropriate receiver-side typmod for the one used by
the sender.  That adds some CPU overhead, but still seems better than
being unable to pass records between cooperating parallel processes.

Along the way, move the logic for handling multiple tuple queues from
tqueue.c to nodeGather.c; tqueue.c now provides a TupleQueueReader,
which reads from a single queue, rather than a TupleQueueFunnel, which
potentially reads from multiple queues.  This change was suggested
previously as a way to make sure that nodeGather.c rather than tqueue.c
had policy control over the order in which to read from queues, but
it wasn't clear to me until now how good an idea it was.  typmod
mapping needs to be performed separately for each queue, and it is
much simpler if the tqueue.c code handles that and leaves multiplexing
multiple queues to higher layers of the stack.
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