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-rw-r--r--src/backend/commands/indexcmds.c63
-rw-r--r--src/include/storage/proc.h5
2 files changed, 64 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/commands/indexcmds.c b/src/backend/commands/indexcmds.c
index 02c7a0c7e1f..ca24620fd0b 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/indexcmds.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/indexcmds.c
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ static void ReindexPartitions(Oid relid, int options, bool isTopLevel);
static void ReindexMultipleInternal(List *relids, int options);
static bool ReindexRelationConcurrently(Oid relationOid, int options);
static void update_relispartition(Oid relationId, bool newval);
+static inline void set_indexsafe_procflags(void);
/*
* callback argument type for RangeVarCallbackForReindexIndex()
@@ -384,7 +385,10 @@ CompareOpclassOptions(Datum *opts1, Datum *opts2, int natts)
* lazy VACUUMs, because they won't be fazed by missing index entries
* either. (Manual ANALYZEs, however, can't be excluded because they
* might be within transactions that are going to do arbitrary operations
- * later.)
+ * later.) Processes running CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY
+ * on indexes that are neither expressional nor partial are also safe to
+ * ignore, since we know that those processes won't examine any data
+ * outside the table they're indexing.
*
* Also, GetCurrentVirtualXIDs never reports our own vxid, so we need not
* check for that.
@@ -405,7 +409,8 @@ WaitForOlderSnapshots(TransactionId limitXmin, bool progress)
VirtualTransactionId *old_snapshots;
old_snapshots = GetCurrentVirtualXIDs(limitXmin, true, false,
- PROC_IS_AUTOVACUUM | PROC_IN_VACUUM,
+ PROC_IS_AUTOVACUUM | PROC_IN_VACUUM
+ | PROC_IN_SAFE_IC,
&n_old_snapshots);
if (progress)
pgstat_progress_update_param(PROGRESS_WAITFOR_TOTAL, n_old_snapshots);
@@ -425,7 +430,8 @@ WaitForOlderSnapshots(TransactionId limitXmin, bool progress)
newer_snapshots = GetCurrentVirtualXIDs(limitXmin,
true, false,
- PROC_IS_AUTOVACUUM | PROC_IN_VACUUM,
+ PROC_IS_AUTOVACUUM | PROC_IN_VACUUM
+ | PROC_IN_SAFE_IC,
&n_newer_snapshots);
for (j = i; j < n_old_snapshots; j++)
{
@@ -518,6 +524,7 @@ DefineIndex(Oid relationId,
bool amcanorder;
amoptions_function amoptions;
bool partitioned;
+ bool safe_index;
Datum reloptions;
int16 *coloptions;
IndexInfo *indexInfo;
@@ -1044,6 +1051,10 @@ DefineIndex(Oid relationId,
}
}
+ /* Is index safe for others to ignore? See set_indexsafe_procflags() */
+ safe_index = indexInfo->ii_Expressions == NIL &&
+ indexInfo->ii_Predicate == NIL;
+
/*
* Report index creation if appropriate (delay this till after most of the
* error checks)
@@ -1430,6 +1441,10 @@ DefineIndex(Oid relationId,
CommitTransactionCommand();
StartTransactionCommand();
+ /* Tell concurrent index builds to ignore us, if index qualifies */
+ if (safe_index)
+ set_indexsafe_procflags();
+
/*
* The index is now visible, so we can report the OID.
*/
@@ -1489,6 +1504,10 @@ DefineIndex(Oid relationId,
CommitTransactionCommand();
StartTransactionCommand();
+ /* Tell concurrent index builds to ignore us, if index qualifies */
+ if (safe_index)
+ set_indexsafe_procflags();
+
/*
* Phase 3 of concurrent index build
*
@@ -1545,6 +1564,10 @@ DefineIndex(Oid relationId,
CommitTransactionCommand();
StartTransactionCommand();
+ /* Tell concurrent index builds to ignore us, if index qualifies */
+ if (safe_index)
+ set_indexsafe_procflags();
+
/* We should now definitely not be advertising any xmin. */
Assert(MyProc->xmin == InvalidTransactionId);
@@ -3896,3 +3919,37 @@ update_relispartition(Oid relationId, bool newval)
heap_freetuple(tup);
table_close(classRel, RowExclusiveLock);
}
+
+/*
+ * Set the PROC_IN_SAFE_IC flag in MyProc->statusFlags.
+ *
+ * When doing concurrent index builds, we can set this flag
+ * to tell other processes concurrently running CREATE
+ * INDEX CONCURRENTLY or REINDEX CONCURRENTLY to ignore us when
+ * doing their waits for concurrent snapshots. On one hand it
+ * avoids pointlessly waiting for a process that's not interesting
+ * anyway; but more importantly it avoids deadlocks in some cases.
+ *
+ * This can be done safely only for indexes that don't execute any
+ * expressions that could access other tables, so index must not be
+ * expressional nor partial. Caller is responsible for only calling
+ * this routine when that assumption holds true.
+ *
+ * (The flag is reset automatically at transaction end, so it must be
+ * set for each transaction.)
+ */
+static inline void
+set_indexsafe_procflags(void)
+{
+ /*
+ * This should only be called before installing xid or xmin in MyProc;
+ * otherwise, concurrent processes could see an Xmin that moves backwards.
+ */
+ Assert(MyProc->xid == InvalidTransactionId &&
+ MyProc->xmin == InvalidTransactionId);
+
+ LWLockAcquire(ProcArrayLock, LW_EXCLUSIVE);
+ MyProc->statusFlags |= PROC_IN_SAFE_IC;
+ ProcGlobal->statusFlags[MyProc->pgxactoff] = MyProc->statusFlags;
+ LWLockRelease(ProcArrayLock);
+}
diff --git a/src/include/storage/proc.h b/src/include/storage/proc.h
index 00bb244340a..e75f6e81782 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/proc.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/proc.h
@@ -53,13 +53,16 @@ struct XidCache
*/
#define PROC_IS_AUTOVACUUM 0x01 /* is it an autovac worker? */
#define PROC_IN_VACUUM 0x02 /* currently running lazy vacuum */
+#define PROC_IN_SAFE_IC 0x04 /* currently running CREATE INDEX
+ * CONCURRENTLY on non-expressional,
+ * non-partial index */
#define PROC_VACUUM_FOR_WRAPAROUND 0x08 /* set by autovac only */
#define PROC_IN_LOGICAL_DECODING 0x10 /* currently doing logical
* decoding outside xact */
/* flags reset at EOXact */
#define PROC_VACUUM_STATE_MASK \
- (PROC_IN_VACUUM | PROC_VACUUM_FOR_WRAPAROUND)
+ (PROC_IN_VACUUM | PROC_IN_SAFE_IC | PROC_VACUUM_FOR_WRAPAROUND)
/*
* We allow a small number of "weak" relation locks (AccessShareLock,