I interned at Citus Data this summer, and implemented a vectorized executor for PostgreSQL. We observed performance improvements of 3-4x for simple SELECT queries with vectorized execution, and ...

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The executor takes the plan handed back by the planner/optimizer and starts processing the top node. In the case of our example (the query given in example \ref{simple_select}) the top node is a ...