Github user hbdeshmukh commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-quickstep/pull/355#discussion_r190785209
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+
+#ifndef QUICKSTEP_STORAGE_DATA_PROVIDER_THREAD_HPP_
+#define QUICKSTEP_STORAGE_DATA_PROVIDER_THREAD_HPP_
+
+#include <cstddef>
+
+#include "query_execution/QueryExecutionTypedefs.hpp"
+#include "storage/StorageConfig.h"
+#include "threading/Thread.hpp"
+#include "utility/Macros.hpp"
+
+#include "tmb/native_net_client_message_bus.h"
+
+namespace quickstep {
+
+class CatalogDatabase;
+class CatalogRelation;
+class QueryProcessor;
+class StorageManager;
+
+/** \addtogroup Storage
+ * @{
+ */
+
+/**
+ * @brief A thread that provides access to query results (e.g. storage
blocks),
+ * to Quickstep clients.
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The DataProviderThread class will be part of the Quickstep server process.
The following image describes the role of this thread.
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