Enable parallel SELECT for "INSERT INTO ... SELECT ...".

Parallel SELECT can't be utilized for INSERT in the following cases:
- INSERT statement uses the ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE clause
- Target table has a parallel-unsafe: trigger, index expression or
  predicate, column default expression or check constraint
- Target table has a parallel-unsafe domain constraint on any column
- Target table is a partitioned table with a parallel-unsafe partition key
  expression or support function

The planner is updated to perform additional parallel-safety checks for
the cases listed above, for determining whether it is safe to run INSERT
in parallel-mode with an underlying parallel SELECT. The planner will
consider using parallel SELECT for "INSERT INTO ... SELECT ...", provided
nothing unsafe is found from the additional parallel-safety checks, or
from the existing parallel-safety checks for SELECT.

While checking parallel-safety, we need to check it for all the partitions
on the table which can be costly especially when we decide not to use a
parallel plan. So, in a separate patch, we will introduce a GUC and or a
reloption to enable/disable parallelism for Insert statements.

Prior to entering parallel-mode for the execution of INSERT with parallel
SELECT, a TransactionId is acquired and assigned to the current
transaction state. This is necessary to prevent the INSERT from attempting
to assign the TransactionId whilst in parallel-mode, which is not allowed.
This approach has a disadvantage in that if the underlying SELECT does not
return any rows, then the TransactionId is not used, however that
shouldn't happen in practice in many cases.

Author: Greg Nancarrow, Amit Langote, Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Amit Langote, Hou Zhijie, Takayuki Tsunakawa, Antonin Houska, Bharath Rupireddy, Dilip Kumar, Vignesh C, Zhihong Yu, Amit Kapila
Tested-by: Tang, Haiying
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJcOf-cXnB5cnMKqWEp2E2z7Mvcd04iLVmV=qpFJrR3AcrTS3g@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJcOf-fAdj=nDKMsRhQzndm-O13NY4dL6xGcEvdX5Xvbbi0V7g@mail.gmail.com

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/include/access/xact.h b/src/include/access/xact.h
index f49a57b35e1..34cfaf542c6 100644
--- a/src/include/access/xact.h
+++ b/src/include/access/xact.h
@@ -466,5 +466,20 @@ extern void ParsePrepareRecord(uint8 info, xl_xact_prepare *xlrec, xl_xact_parse
 extern void EnterParallelMode(void);
 extern void ExitParallelMode(void);
 extern bool IsInParallelMode(void);
+extern void PrepareParallelModePlanExec(CmdType commandType);
+
+/*
+ * IsModifySupportedInParallelMode
+ *
+ * Indicates whether execution of the specified table-modification command
+ * (INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE) in parallel-mode is supported, subject to certain
+ * parallel-safety conditions.
+ */
+static inline bool
+IsModifySupportedInParallelMode(CmdType commandType)
+{
+	/* Currently only INSERT is supported */
+	return (commandType == CMD_INSERT);
+}
 
 #endif							/* XACT_H */