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* Compute XID horizon for page level index vacuum on primary.Andres Freund2019-03-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously the xid horizon was only computed during WAL replay. That had two major problems: 1) It relied on knowing what the table pointed to looks like. That was easy enough before the introducing of tableam (we knew it had to be heap, although some trickery around logging the heap relfilenodes was required). But to properly handle table AMs we need per-database catalog access to look up the AM handler, which recovery doesn't allow. 2) Not knowing the xid horizon also makes it hard to support logical decoding on standbys. When on a catalog table, we need to be able to conflict with slots that have an xid horizon that's too old. But computing the horizon by visiting the heap only works once consistency is reached, but we always need to be able to detect conflicts. There's also a secondary problem, in that the current method performs redundant work on every standby. But that's counterbalanced by potentially computing the value when not necessary (either because there's no standby, or because there's no connected backends). Solve 1) and 2) by moving computation of the xid horizon to the primary and by involving tableam in the computation of the horizon. To address the potentially increased overhead, increase the efficiency of the xid horizon computation for heap by sorting the tids, and eliminating redundant buffer accesses. When prefetching is available, additionally perform prefetching of buffers. As this is more of a maintenance task, rather than something routinely done in every read only query, we add an arbitrary 10 to the effective concurrency - thereby using IO concurrency, when not globally enabled. That's possibly not the perfect formula, but seems good enough for now. Bumps WAL format, as latestRemovedXid is now part of the records, and the heap's relfilenode isn't anymore. Author: Andres Freund, Amit Khandekar, Robert Haas Reviewed-By: Robert Haas Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181212204154.nsxf3gzqv3gesl32@alap3.anarazel.de https://postgr.es/m/20181214014235.dal5ogljs3bmlq44@alap3.anarazel.de https://postgr.es/m/20180703070645.wchpu5muyto5n647@alap3.anarazel.de
* Remove heap_hot_search().Andres Freund2019-03-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | After 71bdc99d0d7, "tableam: Add helper for indexes to check if a corresponding table tuples exist." there's no in-core user left. As there's unlikely to be an external user, and such an external user could easily be adjusted to use table_index_fetch_tuple_check(), remove heap_hot_search(). Per complaint from Peter Geoghegan Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wzn0Oq4ftJrTqRAsWy2WGjv0QrJcwoZ+yqWsF_Z5vjUBFw@mail.gmail.com
* tableam: Add and use table_fetch_row_version().Andres Freund2019-03-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is essentially the tableam version of heapam_fetch(), i.e. fetching a tuple identified by a tid, performing visibility checks. Note that this different from table_index_fetch_tuple(), which is for index lookups. It therefore has to handle a tid pointing to an earlier version of a tuple if the AM uses an optimization like heap's HOT. Add comments to that end. This commit removes the stats_relation argument from heap_fetch, as it's been unused for a long time. Author: Andres Freund Reviewed-By: Haribabu Kommi Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180703070645.wchpu5muyto5n647@alap3.anarazel.de
* tableam: Add tuple_{insert, delete, update, lock} and use.Andres Freund2019-03-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds new, required, table AM callbacks for insert/delete/update and lock_tuple. To be able to reasonably use those, the EvalPlanQual mechanism had to be adapted, moving more logic into the AM. Previously both delete/update/lock call-sites and the EPQ mechanism had to have awareness of the specific tuple format to be able to fetch the latest version of a tuple. Obviously that needs to be abstracted away. To do so, move the logic that find the latest row version into the AM. lock_tuple has a new flag argument, TUPLE_LOCK_FLAG_FIND_LAST_VERSION, that forces it to lock the last version, rather than the current one. It'd have been possible to do so via a separate callback as well, but finding the last version usually also necessitates locking the newest version, making it sensible to combine the two. This replaces the previous use of EvalPlanQualFetch(). Additionally HeapTupleUpdated, which previously signaled either a concurrent update or delete, is now split into two, to avoid callers needing AM specific knowledge to differentiate. The move of finding the latest row version into tuple_lock means that encountering a row concurrently moved into another partition will now raise an error about "tuple to be locked" rather than "tuple to be updated/deleted" - which is accurate, as that always happens when locking rows. While possible slightly less helpful for users, it seems like an acceptable trade-off. As part of this commit HTSU_Result has been renamed to TM_Result, and its members been expanded to differentiated between updating and deleting. HeapUpdateFailureData has been renamed to TM_FailureData. The interface to speculative insertion is changed so nodeModifyTable.c does not have to set the speculative token itself anymore. Instead there's a version of tuple_insert, tuple_insert_speculative, that performs the speculative insertion (without requiring a flag to signal that fact), and the speculative insertion is either made permanent with table_complete_speculative(succeeded = true) or aborted with succeeded = false). Note that multi_insert is not yet routed through tableam, nor is COPY. Changing multi_insert requires changes to copy.c that are large enough to better be done separately. Similarly, although simpler, CREATE TABLE AS and CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW are also only going to be adjusted in a later commit. Author: Andres Freund and Haribabu Kommi Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180703070645.wchpu5muyto5n647@alap3.anarazel.de https://postgr.es/m/20190313003903.nwvrxi7rw3ywhdel@alap3.anarazel.de https://postgr.es/m/20160812231527.GA690404@alvherre.pgsql
* tableam: Add and use scan APIs.Andres Freund2019-03-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Too allow table accesses to be not directly dependent on heap, several new abstractions are needed. Specifically: 1) Heap scans need to be generalized into table scans. Do this by introducing TableScanDesc, which will be the "base class" for individual AMs. This contains the AM independent fields from HeapScanDesc. The previous heap_{beginscan,rescan,endscan} et al. have been replaced with a table_ version. There's no direct replacement for heap_getnext(), as that returned a HeapTuple, which is undesirable for a other AMs. Instead there's table_scan_getnextslot(). But note that heap_getnext() lives on, it's still used widely to access catalog tables. This is achieved by new scan_begin, scan_end, scan_rescan, scan_getnextslot callbacks. 2) The portion of parallel scans that's shared between backends need to be able to do so without the user doing per-AM work. To achieve that new parallelscan_{estimate, initialize, reinitialize} callbacks are introduced, which operate on a new ParallelTableScanDesc, which again can be subclassed by AMs. As it is likely that several AMs are going to be block oriented, block oriented callbacks that can be shared between such AMs are provided and used by heap. table_block_parallelscan_{estimate, intiialize, reinitialize} as callbacks, and table_block_parallelscan_{nextpage, init} for use in AMs. These operate on a ParallelBlockTableScanDesc. 3) Index scans need to be able to access tables to return a tuple, and there needs to be state across individual accesses to the heap to store state like buffers. That's now handled by introducing a sort-of-scan IndexFetchTable, which again is intended to be subclassed by individual AMs (for heap IndexFetchHeap). The relevant callbacks for an AM are index_fetch_{end, begin, reset} to create the necessary state, and index_fetch_tuple to retrieve an indexed tuple. Note that index_fetch_tuple implementations need to be smarter than just blindly fetching the tuples for AMs that have optimizations similar to heap's HOT - the currently alive tuple in the update chain needs to be fetched if appropriate. Similar to table_scan_getnextslot(), it's undesirable to continue to return HeapTuples. Thus index_fetch_heap (might want to rename that later) now accepts a slot as an argument. Core code doesn't have a lot of call sites performing index scans without going through the systable_* API (in contrast to loads of heap_getnext calls and working directly with HeapTuples). Index scans now store the result of a search in IndexScanDesc->xs_heaptid, rather than xs_ctup->t_self. As the target is not generally a HeapTuple anymore that seems cleaner. To be able to sensible adapt code to use the above, two further callbacks have been introduced: a) slot_callbacks returns a TupleTableSlotOps* suitable for creating slots capable of holding a tuple of the AMs type. table_slot_callbacks() and table_slot_create() are based upon that, but have additional logic to deal with views, foreign tables, etc. While this change could have been done separately, nearly all the call sites that needed to be adapted for the rest of this commit also would have been needed to be adapted for table_slot_callbacks(), making separation not worthwhile. b) tuple_satisfies_snapshot checks whether the tuple in a slot is currently visible according to a snapshot. That's required as a few places now don't have a buffer + HeapTuple around, but a slot (which in heap's case internally has that information). Additionally a few infrastructure changes were needed: I) SysScanDesc, as used by systable_{beginscan, getnext} et al. now internally uses a slot to keep track of tuples. While systable_getnext() still returns HeapTuples, and will so for the foreseeable future, the index API (see 1) above) now only deals with slots. The remainder, and largest part, of this commit is then adjusting all scans in postgres to use the new APIs. Author: Andres Freund, Haribabu Kommi, Alvaro Herrera Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180703070645.wchpu5muyto5n647@alap3.anarazel.de https://postgr.es/m/20160812231527.GA690404@alvherre.pgsql
* Fix use of dangling pointer in heap_delete() when logging replica identityMichael Paquier2019-02-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | When logging the replica identity of a deleted tuple, XLOG_HEAP_DELETE records include references of the old tuple. Its data is stored in an intermediate variable used to register this information for the WAL record, but this variable gets away from the stack when the record gets actually inserted. Spotted by clang's AddressSanitizer. Author: Stas Kelvish Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/085C8825-AD86-4E93-AF80-E26CDF03D1EA@postgrespro.ru Backpatch-through: 9.4
* Rephrase references to "time qualification".Andres Freund2019-01-21
| | | | | | | | | Now that the relevant code has, for other reasons, moved out of tqual.[ch], it seems time to refer to visiblity rather than time qualification. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180703070645.wchpu5muyto5n647@alap3.anarazel.de
* Move remaining code from tqual.[ch] to heapam.h / heapam_visibility.c.Andres Freund2019-01-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Given these routines are heap specific, and that there will be more generic visibility support in via table AM, it makes sense to move the prototypes to heapam.h (routines like HeapTupleSatisfiesVacuum will not be exposed in a generic fashion, because they are too storage specific). Similarly, the code in tqual.c is specific to heap, so moving it into access/heap/ makes sense. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180703070645.wchpu5muyto5n647@alap3.anarazel.de
* Replace uses of heap_open et al with the corresponding table_* function.Andres Freund2019-01-21
| | | | | Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190111000539.xbv7s6w7ilcvm7dp@alap3.anarazel.de
* Introduce access/{table.h, relation.h}, for generic functions from heapam.h.Andres Freund2019-01-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | access/heapam contains functions that are very storage specific (say heap_insert() and a lot of lower level functions), and fairly generic infrastructure like relation_open(), heap_open() etc. In the upcoming pluggable storage work we're introducing a layer between table accesses in general and heapam, to allow for different storage methods. For a bit cleaner separation it thus seems advantageous to move generic functions like the aforementioned to their own headers. access/relation.h will contain relation_open() etc, and access/table.h will contain table_open() (formerly known as heap_open()). I've decided for table.h not to include relation.h, but we might change that at a later stage. relation.h already exists in another directory, but the other plausible name (rel.h) also conflicts. It'd be nice if there were a non-conflicting name, but nobody came up with a suggestion. It's possible that the appropriate way to address the naming conflict would be to rename nodes/relation.h, which isn't particularly well named. To avoid breaking a lot of extensions that just use heap_open() etc, table.h has macros mapping the old names to the new ones, and heapam.h includes relation, table.h. That also allows to keep the bulk renaming of existing callers in a separate commit. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190111000539.xbv7s6w7ilcvm7dp@alap3.anarazel.de
* Adjust some more comments for WITH OIDS removal.Andres Freund2019-01-21
| | | | | | I missed these in 578b229718e8f. Author: Andres Freund
* Don't duplicate parallel seqscan shmem sizing logic in nbtree.Andres Freund2019-01-15
| | | | | | | | | | | This is architecturally mildly problematic, which becomes more pronounced with the upcoming introduction of pluggable storage. To fix, teach heap_parallelscan_estimate() to deal with SnapshotAny snapshots, and then use it from _bt_parallel_estimate_shared(). Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180703070645.wchpu5muyto5n647@alap3.anarazel.de
* Finish reverting "recheck_on_update" patch.Tom Lane2019-01-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit c203d6cf8 and some follow-on fixes, completing the task begun in commit 5d28c9bd7. If that feature is ever resurrected, the code will look quite a bit different from this, so it seems best to start from a clean slate. The v11 branch is not touched; in that branch, the recheck_on_update storage option remains present, but nonfunctional and undocumented. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190114223409.3tcvejfhlvbucrv5@alap3.anarazel.de
* Don't include genam.h from execnodes.h and relscan.h anymore.Andres Freund2019-01-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is the genam.h equivalent of 4c850ecec649c (which removed heapam.h from a lot of other headers). There's still a few header includes of genam.h, but not from central headers anymore. As a few headers are not indirectly included anymore, execnodes.h and relscan.h need a few additional includes. Some of the depended on types were replacable by using the underlying structs, but e.g. for Snapshot in execnodes.h that'd have gotten more invasive than reasonable in this commit. Like the aforementioned commit 4c850ecec649c, this requires adding new genam.h includes to a number of backend files, which likely is also required in a few external projects. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190114000701.y4ttcb74jpskkcfb@alap3.anarazel.de
* Update copyright for 2019Bruce Momjian2019-01-02
| | | | Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.4
* Remove WITH OIDS support, change oid catalog column visibility.Andres Freund2018-11-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously tables declared WITH OIDS, including a significant fraction of the catalog tables, stored the oid column not as a normal column, but as part of the tuple header. This special column was not shown by default, which was somewhat odd, as it's often (consider e.g. pg_class.oid) one of the more important parts of a row. Neither pg_dump nor COPY included the contents of the oid column by default. The fact that the oid column was not an ordinary column necessitated a significant amount of special case code to support oid columns. That already was painful for the existing, but upcoming work aiming to make table storage pluggable, would have required expanding and duplicating that "specialness" significantly. WITH OIDS has been deprecated since 2005 (commit ff02d0a05280e0). Remove it. Removing includes: - CREATE TABLE and ALTER TABLE syntax for declaring the table to be WITH OIDS has been removed (WITH (oids[ = true]) will error out) - pg_dump does not support dumping tables declared WITH OIDS and will issue a warning when dumping one (and ignore the oid column). - restoring an pg_dump archive with pg_restore will warn when restoring a table with oid contents (and ignore the oid column) - COPY will refuse to load binary dump that includes oids. - pg_upgrade will error out when encountering tables declared WITH OIDS, they have to be altered to remove the oid column first. - Functionality to access the oid of the last inserted row (like plpgsql's RESULT_OID, spi's SPI_lastoid, ...) has been removed. The syntax for declaring a table WITHOUT OIDS (or WITH (oids = false) for CREATE TABLE) is still supported. While that requires a bit of support code, it seems unnecessary to break applications / dumps that do not use oids, and are explicit about not using them. The biggest user of WITH OID columns was postgres' catalog. This commit changes all 'magic' oid columns to be columns that are normally declared and stored. To reduce unnecessary query breakage all the newly added columns are still named 'oid', even if a table's column naming scheme would indicate 'reloid' or such. This obviously requires adapting a lot code, mostly replacing oid access via HeapTupleGetOid() with access to the underlying Form_pg_*->oid column. The bootstrap process now assigns oids for all oid columns in genbki.pl that do not have an explicit value (starting at the largest oid previously used), only oids assigned later by oids will be above FirstBootstrapObjectId. As the oid column now is a normal column the special bootstrap syntax for oids has been removed. Oids are not automatically assigned during insertion anymore, all backend code explicitly assigns oids with GetNewOidWithIndex(). For the rare case that insertions into the catalog via SQL are called for the new pg_nextoid() function can be used (which only works on catalog tables). The fact that oid columns on system tables are now normal columns means that they will be included in the set of columns expanded by * (i.e. SELECT * FROM pg_class will now include the table's oid, previously it did not). It'd not technically be hard to hide oid column by default, but that'd mean confusing behavior would either have to be carried forward forever, or it'd cause breakage down the line. While it's not unlikely that further adjustments are needed, the scope/invasiveness of the patch makes it worthwhile to get merge this now. It's painful to maintain externally, too complicated to commit after the code code freeze, and a dependency of a number of other patches. Catversion bump, for obvious reasons. Author: Andres Freund, with contributions by John Naylor Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180930034810.ywp2c7awz7opzcfr@alap3.anarazel.de
* Introduce notion of different types of slots (without implementing them).Andres Freund2018-11-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Upcoming work intends to allow pluggable ways to introduce new ways of storing table data. Accessing those table access methods from the executor requires TupleTableSlots to be carry tuples in the native format of such storage methods; otherwise there'll be a significant conversion overhead. Different access methods will require different data to store tuples efficiently (just like virtual, minimal, heap already require fields in TupleTableSlot). To allow that without requiring additional pointer indirections, we want to have different structs (embedding TupleTableSlot) for different types of slots. Thus different types of slots are needed, which requires adapting creators of slots. The slot that most efficiently can represent a type of tuple in an executor node will often depend on the type of slot a child node uses. Therefore we need to track the type of slot is returned by nodes, so parent slots can create slots based on that. Relatedly, JIT compilation of tuple deforming needs to know which type of slot a certain expression refers to, so it can create an appropriate deforming function for the type of tuple in the slot. But not all nodes will only return one type of slot, e.g. an append node will potentially return different types of slots for each of its subplans. Therefore add function that allows to query the type of a node's result slot, and whether it'll always be the same type (whether it's fixed). This can be queried using ExecGetResultSlotOps(). The scan, result, inner, outer type of slots are automatically inferred from ExecInitScanTupleSlot(), ExecInitResultSlot(), left/right subtrees respectively. If that's not correct for a node, that can be overwritten using new fields in PlanState. This commit does not introduce the actually abstracted implementation of different kind of TupleTableSlots, that will be left for a followup commit. The different types of slots introduced will, for now, still use the same backing implementation. While this already partially invalidates the big comment in tuptable.h, it seems to make more sense to update it later, when the different TupleTableSlot implementations actually exist. Author: Ashutosh Bapat and Andres Freund, with changes by Amit Khandekar Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181105210039.hh4vvi4vwoq5ba2q@alap3.anarazel.de
* Fix logical decoding error when system table w/ toast is repeatedly rewritten.Andres Freund2018-10-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Repeatedly rewriting a mapped catalog table with VACUUM FULL or CLUSTER could cause logical decoding to fail with: ERROR, "could not map filenode \"%s\" to relation OID" To trigger the problem the rewritten catalog had to have live tuples with toasted columns. The problem was triggered as during catalog table rewrites the heap_insert() check that prevents logical decoding information to be emitted for system catalogs, failed to treat the new heap's toast table as a system catalog (because the new heap is not recognized as a catalog table via RelationIsLogicallyLogged()). The relmapper, in contrast to the normal catalog contents, does not contain historical information. After a single rewrite of a mapped table the new relation is known to the relmapper, but if the table is rewritten twice before logical decoding occurs, the relfilenode cannot be mapped to a relation anymore. Which then leads us to error out. This only happens for toast tables, because the main table contents aren't re-inserted with heap_insert(). The fix is simple, add a new heap_insert() flag that prevents logical decoding information from being emitted, and accept during decoding that there might not be tuple data for toast tables. Unfortunately that does not fix pre-existing logical decoding errors. Doing so would require not throwing an error when a filenode cannot be mapped to a relation during decoding, and that seems too likely to hide bugs. If it's crucial to fix decoding for an existing slot, temporarily changing the ERROR in ReorderBufferCommit() to a WARNING appears to be the best fix. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180914021046.oi7dm4ra3ot2g2kt@alap3.anarazel.de Backpatch: 9.4-, where logical decoding was introduced
* Restore sane locking behavior during parallel query.Tom Lane2018-10-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 9a3cebeaa changed things so that parallel workers didn't obtain any lock of their own on tables they access. That was clearly a bad idea, but I'd mistakenly supposed that it was the intended end result of the series of patches for simplifying the executor's lock management. Undo that change in relation_open(), and adjust ExecOpenScanRelation() so that it gets the correct lock if inside a parallel worker. In passing, clean up some more obsolete comments about when locks are acquired. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/468c85d9-540e-66a2-1dde-fec2b741e688@lab.ntt.co.jp
* Change executor to just Assert that table locks were already obtained.Tom Lane2018-10-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Instead of locking tables during executor startup, just Assert that suitable locks were obtained already during the parse/plan pipeline (or re-obtained by the plan cache). This must be so, else we have a hazard that concurrent DDL has invalidated the plan. This is pretty inefficient as well as undercommented, but it's all going to go away shortly, so I didn't try hard. This commit is just another attempt to use the buildfarm to see if we've missed anything in the plan to simplify the executor's table management. Note that the change needed here in relation_open() exposes that parallel workers now really are accessing tables without holding any lock of their own, whereas they were not doing that before this commit. This does not give me a warm fuzzy feeling about that aspect of parallel query; it does not seem like a good design, and we now know that it's had exactly no actual testing. I think that we should modify parallel query so that that change can be reverted. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/468c85d9-540e-66a2-1dde-fec2b741e688@lab.ntt.co.jp
* Add assertions that we hold some relevant lock during relation open.Tom Lane2018-10-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Opening a relation with no lock at all is unsafe; there's no guarantee that we'll see a consistent state of the relevant catalog entries. While use of MVCC scans to read the catalogs partially addresses that complaint, it's still possible to switch to a new catalog snapshot partway through loading the relcache entry. Moreover, whether or not you trust the reasoning behind sometimes using less than AccessExclusiveLock for ALTER TABLE, that reasoning is certainly not valid if concurrent users of the table don't hold a lock corresponding to the operation they want to perform. Hence, add some assertion-build-only checks that require any caller of relation_open(x, NoLock) to hold at least AccessShareLock. This isn't a full solution, since we can't verify that the lock level is semantically appropriate for the action --- but it's definitely of some use, because it's already caught two bugs. We can also assert that callers of addRangeTableEntryForRelation() hold at least the lock level specified for the new RTE. Amit Langote and Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16565.1538327894@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Split ExecStoreTuple into ExecStoreHeapTuple and ExecStoreBufferHeapTuple.Andres Freund2018-09-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Upcoming changes introduce further types of tuple table slots, in preparation of making table storage pluggable. New storage methods will have different representation of tuples, therefore the slot accessor should refer explicitly to heap tuples. Instead of just renaming the functions, split it into one function that accepts heap tuples not residing in buffers, and one accepting ones in buffers. Previously one function was used for both, but that was a bit awkward already, and splitting will allow us to represent slot types for tuples in buffers and normal memory separately. This is split out from the patch introducing abstract slots, as this largely consists out of mechanical changes. Author: Ashutosh Bapat Reviewed-By: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180220224318.gw4oe5jadhpmcdnm@alap3.anarazel.de
* Avoid using potentially-under-aligned page buffers.Tom Lane2018-09-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There's a project policy against using plain "char buf[BLCKSZ]" local or static variables as page buffers; preferred style is to palloc or malloc each buffer to ensure it is MAXALIGN'd. However, that policy's been ignored in an increasing number of places. We've apparently got away with it so far, probably because (a) relatively few people use platforms on which misalignment causes core dumps and/or (b) the variables chance to be sufficiently aligned anyway. But this is not something to rely on. Moreover, even if we don't get a core dump, we might be paying a lot of cycles for misaligned accesses. To fix, invent new union types PGAlignedBlock and PGAlignedXLogBlock that the compiler must allocate with sufficient alignment, and use those in place of plain char arrays. I used these types even for variables where there's no risk of a misaligned access, since ensuring proper alignment should make kernel data transfers faster. I also changed some places where we had been palloc'ing short-lived buffers, for coding style uniformity and to save palloc/pfree overhead. Since this seems to be a live portability hazard (despite the lack of field reports), back-patch to all supported versions. Patch by me; thanks to Michael Paquier for review. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1535618100.1286.3.camel@credativ.de
* Update FSM on WAL replay of page all-visible/frozenAlvaro Herrera2018-08-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We aren't very strict about keeping FSM up to date on WAL replay, because per-page freespace values aren't critical in replicas (can't write to heap in a replica; and if the replica is promoted, the values would be updated by VACUUM anyway). However, VACUUM since 9.6 can skip processing pages marked all-visible or all-frozen, and if such pages are recorded in FSM with wrong values, those values are blindly propagated to FSM's upper layers by VACUUM's FreeSpaceMapVacuum. (This rationale assumes that crashes are not very frequent, because those would cause outdated FSM to occur in the primary.) Even when the FSM is outdated in standby, things are not too bad normally, because, most per-page FSM values will be zero (other than those propagated with the base-backup that created the standby); only once the remaining free space is less than 0.2*BLCKSZ the per-page value is maintained by WAL replay of heap ins/upd/del. However, if wal_log_hints=on causes complete FSM pages to be propagated to a standby via full-page images, many too-optimistic per-page values can end up being registered in the standby. Incorrect per-page values aren't critical in most cases, since an inserter that is given a page that doesn't actually contain the claimed free space will update FSM with the correct value, and retry until it finds a usable page. However, if there are many such updates to do, an inserter can spend a long time doing them before a usable page is found; in a heavily trafficked insert-only table with many concurrent inserters this has been observed to cause several second stalls, causing visible application malfunction. To fix this problem, it seems sufficient to have heap_xlog_visible (replay of setting all-visible and all-frozen VM bits for a heap page) update the FSM value for the page being processed. This fixes the per-page counters together with making the page skippable to vacuum, so when vacuum does FreeSpaceMapVacuum, the values propagated to FSM upper layers are the correct ones, avoiding the problem. While at it, apply the same fix to heap_xlog_clean (replay of tuple removal by HOT pruning and vacuum). This makes any space freed by the cleaning available earlier than the next vacuum in the promoted replica. Backpatch to 9.6, where this problem was diagnosed on an insert-only table with all-frozen pages, which were introduced as a concept in that release. Theoretically it could apply with all-visible pages to older branches, but there's been no report of that and it doesn't backpatch cleanly anyway. Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180802172857.5skoexsilnjvgruk@alvherre.pgsql
* Don't mark pages all-visible spuriouslyAlvaro Herrera2018-05-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Dan Wood diagnosed a long-standing problem that pages containing tuples that are locked by multixacts containing live lockers may spuriously end up as candidates for getting their all-visible flag set. This has the long-term effect that multixacts remain unfrozen; this may previously pass undetected, but since commit XYZ it would be reported as "ERROR: found multixact 134100944 from before relminmxid 192042633" because when a later vacuum tries to freeze the page it detects that a multixact that should have gotten frozen, wasn't. Dan proposed a (correct) patch that simply sets a variable to its correct value, after a bogus initialization. But, per discussion, it seems better coding to avoid the bogus initializations altogether, since they could give rise to more bugs later. Therefore this fix rewrites the logic a little bit to avoid depending on the bogus initializations. This bug was part of a family introduced in 9.6 by commit a892234f830e; later, commit 38e9f90a227d fixed most of them, but this one was unnoticed. Authors: Dan Wood, Pavan Deolasee, Álvaro Herrera Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada, Pavan Deolasee, Álvaro Herrera Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/84EBAC55-F06D-4FBE-A3F3-8BDA093CE3E3@amazon.com
* Post-feature-freeze pgindent run.Tom Lane2018-04-26
| | | | Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15719.1523984266@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Revert MERGE patchSimon Riggs2018-04-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commits d204ef63776b8a00ca220adec23979091564e465, 83454e3c2b28141c0db01c7d2027e01040df5249 and a few more commits thereafter (complete list at the end) related to MERGE feature. While the feature was fully functional, with sufficient test coverage and necessary documentation, it was felt that some parts of the executor and parse-analyzer can use a different design and it wasn't possible to do that in the available time. So it was decided to revert the patch for PG11 and retry again in the future. Thanks again to all reviewers and bug reporters. List of commits reverted, in reverse chronological order: f1464c5380 Improve parse representation for MERGE ddb4158579 MERGE syntax diagram correction 530e69e59b Allow cpluspluscheck to pass by renaming variable 01b88b4df5 MERGE minor errata 3af7b2b0d4 MERGE fix variable warning in non-assert builds a5d86181ec MERGE INSERT allows only one VALUES clause 4b2d44031f MERGE post-commit review 4923550c20 Tab completion for MERGE aa3faa3c7a WITH support in MERGE 83454e3c2b New files for MERGE d204ef6377 MERGE SQL Command following SQL:2016 Author: Pavan Deolasee Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
* Raise error when affecting tuple moved into different partition.Andres Freund2018-04-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When an update moves a row between partitions (supported since 2f178441044b), our normal logic for following update chains in READ COMMITTED mode doesn't work anymore. Cross partition updates are modeled as an delete from the old and insert into the new partition. No ctid chain exists across partitions, and there's no convenient space to introduce that link. Not throwing an error in a partitioned context when one would have been thrown without partitioning is obviously problematic. This commit introduces infrastructure to detect when a tuple has been moved, not just plainly deleted. That allows to throw an error when encountering a deletion that's actually a move, while attempting to following a ctid chain. The row deleted as part of a cross partition update is marked by pointing it's t_ctid to an invalid block, instead of self as a normal update would. That was deemed to be the least invasive and most future proof way to represent the knowledge, given how few infomask bits are there to be recycled (there's also some locking issues with using infomask bits). External code following ctid chains should be updated to check for moved tuples. The most likely consequence of not doing so is a missed error. Author: Amul Sul, editorialized by me Reviewed-By: Amit Kapila, Pavan Deolasee, Andres Freund, Robert Haas Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAAJ_b95PkwojoYfz0bzXU8OokcTVGzN6vYGCNVUukeUDrnF3dw@mail.gmail.com
* Indexes with INCLUDE columns and their support in B-treeTeodor Sigaev2018-04-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch introduces INCLUDE clause to index definition. This clause specifies a list of columns which will be included as a non-key part in the index. The INCLUDE columns exist solely to allow more queries to benefit from index-only scans. Also, such columns don't need to have appropriate operator classes. Expressions are not supported as INCLUDE columns since they cannot be used in index-only scans. Index access methods supporting INCLUDE are indicated by amcaninclude flag in IndexAmRoutine. For now, only B-tree indexes support INCLUDE clause. In B-tree indexes INCLUDE columns are truncated from pivot index tuples (tuples located in non-leaf pages and high keys). Therefore, B-tree indexes now might have variable number of attributes. This patch also provides generic facility to support that: pivot tuples contain number of their attributes in t_tid.ip_posid. Free 13th bit of t_info is used for indicating that. This facility will simplify further support of index suffix truncation. The changes of above are backward-compatible, pg_upgrade doesn't need special handling of B-tree indexes for that. Bump catalog version Author: Anastasia Lubennikova with contribition by Alexander Korotkov and me Reviewed by: Peter Geoghegan, Tomas Vondra, Antonin Houska, Jeff Janes, David Rowley, Alexander Korotkov Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/56168952.4010101@postgrespro.ru
* Logical decoding of TRUNCATEPeter Eisentraut2018-04-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a new WAL record type for TRUNCATE, which is only used when wal_level >= logical. (For physical replication, TRUNCATE is already replicated via SMGR records.) Add new callback for logical decoding output plugins to receive TRUNCATE actions. Author: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> Author: Marco Nenciarini <marco.nenciarini@2ndquadrant.it> Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com> Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
* MERGE SQL Command following SQL:2016Simon Riggs2018-04-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | MERGE performs actions that modify rows in the target table using a source table or query. MERGE provides a single SQL statement that can conditionally INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE rows a task that would other require multiple PL statements. e.g. MERGE INTO target AS t USING source AS s ON t.tid = s.sid WHEN MATCHED AND t.balance > s.delta THEN UPDATE SET balance = t.balance - s.delta WHEN MATCHED THEN DELETE WHEN NOT MATCHED AND s.delta > 0 THEN INSERT VALUES (s.sid, s.delta) WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN DO NOTHING; MERGE works with regular and partitioned tables, including column and row security enforcement, as well as support for row, statement and transition triggers. MERGE is optimized for OLTP and is parameterizable, though also useful for large scale ETL/ELT. MERGE is not intended to be used in preference to existing single SQL commands for INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE since there is some overhead. MERGE can be used statically from PL/pgSQL. MERGE does not yet support inheritance, write rules, RETURNING clauses, updatable views or foreign tables. MERGE follows SQL Standard per the most recent SQL:2016. Includes full tests and documentation, including full isolation tests to demonstrate the concurrent behavior. This version written from scratch in 2017 by Simon Riggs, using docs and tests originally written in 2009. Later work from Pavan Deolasee has been both complex and deep, leaving the lead author credit now in his hands. Extensive discussion of concurrency from Peter Geoghegan, with thanks for the time and effort contributed. Various issues reported via sqlsmith by Andreas Seltenreich Authors: Pavan Deolasee, Simon Riggs Reviewer: Peter Geoghegan, Amit Langote, Tomas Vondra, Simon Riggs Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANP8+jKitBSrB7oTgT9CY2i1ObfOt36z0XMraQc+Xrz8QB0nXA@mail.gmail.com https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkJdBuxj9PO=2QaO9-3h3xGbQPZ34kJH=HukRekwM-GZg@mail.gmail.com
* Revert "Modified files for MERGE"Simon Riggs2018-04-02
| | | | This reverts commit 354f13855e6381d288dfaa52bcd4f2cb0fd4a5eb.
* Modified files for MERGESimon Riggs2018-04-02
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* Allow HOT updates for some expression indexesSimon Riggs2018-03-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the value of an index expression is unchanged after UPDATE, allow HOT updates where previously we disallowed them, giving a significant performance boost in those cases. Particularly useful for indexes such as JSON->>field where the JSON value changes but the indexed value does not. Submitted as "surjective indexes" patch, now enabled by use of new "recheck_on_update" parameter. Author: Konstantin Knizhnik Reviewer: Simon Riggs, with much wordsmithing and some cleanup
* Fix HEAP_INSERT_IS_SPECULATIVE to HEAP_INSERT_SPECULATIVE in comments.Andres Freund2018-03-05
| | | | | | | This was wrong since 168d5805e4c08bed7b95d351bf097cff7c07dd65, which introduced speculative inserts. Author: Andres Freund
* Fix VM buffer pin management in heap_lock_updated_tuple_rec().Tom Lane2018-03-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Sloppy coding in this function could lead to leaking a VM buffer pin, or to attempting to free the same pin twice. Repair. While at it, reduce the code's tendency to free and reacquire the same page pin. Back-patch to 9.6; before that, this routine did not concern itself with VM pages. Amit Kapila and Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1KJKwhc=isgTQHjM76CAdVswzNeAuZkh_cx-6QgGkSEgA@mail.gmail.com
* Relax overly strict sanity check for upgraded ancient databasesAlvaro Herrera2018-03-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 4800f16a7ad0 added some sanity checks to ensure we don't accidentally corrupt data, but in one of them we failed to consider the effects of a database upgraded from 9.2 or earlier, where a tuple exclusively locked prior to the upgrade has a slightly different bit pattern. Fix that by using the macro that we fixed in commit 74ebba84aeb6 for similar situations. Reported-by: Alexandre Garcia Reviewed-by: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPYLKR6yxV4=pfW0Gwij7aPNiiPx+3ib4USVYnbuQdUtmkMaEA@mail.gmail.com Andres suspects that this bug may have wider ranging consequences, but I couldn't find anything.
* Support parallel btree index builds.Robert Haas2018-02-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To make this work, tuplesort.c and logtape.c must also support parallelism, so this patch adds that infrastructure and then applies it to the particular case of parallel btree index builds. Testing to date shows that this can often be 2-3x faster than a serial index build. The model for deciding how many workers to use is fairly primitive at present, but it's better than not having the feature. We can refine it as we get more experience. Peter Geoghegan with some help from Rushabh Lathia. While Heikki Linnakangas is not an author of this patch, he wrote other patches without which this feature would not have been possible, and therefore the release notes should possibly credit him as an author of this feature. Reviewed by Claudio Freire, Heikki Linnakangas, Thomas Munro, Tels, Amit Kapila, me. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAM3SWZQKM=Pzc=CAHzRixKjp2eO5Q0Jg1SoFQqeXFQ647JiwqQ@mail.gmail.com Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wz=AxWqDoVvGU7dq856S4r6sJAj6DBn7VMtigkB33N5eyg@mail.gmail.com
* Local partitioned indexesAlvaro Herrera2018-01-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When CREATE INDEX is run on a partitioned table, create catalog entries for an index on the partitioned table (which is just a placeholder since the table proper has no data of its own), and recurse to create actual indexes on the existing partitions; create them in future partitions also. As a convenience gadget, if the new index definition matches some existing index in partitions, these are picked up and used instead of creating new ones. Whichever way these indexes come about, they become attached to the index on the parent table and are dropped alongside it, and cannot be dropped on isolation unless they are detached first. To support pg_dump'ing these indexes, add commands CREATE INDEX ON ONLY <table> (which creates the index on the parent partitioned table, without recursing) and ALTER INDEX ATTACH PARTITION (which is used after the indexes have been created individually on each partition, to attach them to the parent index). These reconstruct prior database state exactly. Reviewed-by: (in alphabetical order) Peter Eisentraut, Robert Haas, Amit Langote, Jesper Pedersen, Simon Riggs, David Rowley Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171113170646.gzweigyrgg6pwsg4@alvherre.pgsql
* Update copyright for 2018Bruce Momjian2018-01-02
| | | | Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.3
* Perform a lot more sanity checks when freezing tuples.Andres Freund2017-12-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The previous commit has shown that the sanity checks around freezing aren't strong enough. Strengthening them seems especially important because the existance of the bug has caused corruption that we don't want to make even worse during future vacuum cycles. The errors are emitted with ereport rather than elog, despite being "should never happen" messages, so a proper error code is emitted. To avoid superflous translations, mark messages as internal. Author: Andres Freund and Alvaro Herrera Reviewed-By: Alvaro Herrera, Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171102112019.33wb7g5wp4zpjelu@alap3.anarazel.de Backpatch: 9.3-
* Change TRUE/FALSE to true/falsePeter Eisentraut2017-11-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The lower case spellings are C and C++ standard and are used in most parts of the PostgreSQL sources. The upper case spellings are only used in some files/modules. So standardize on the standard spellings. The APIs for ICU, Perl, and Windows define their own TRUE and FALSE, so those are left as is when using those APIs. In code comments, we use the lower-case spelling for the C concepts and keep the upper-case spelling for the SQL concepts. Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
* Revert bogus fixes of HOT-freezing bugAlvaro Herrera2017-11-02
| | | | | | | | | | It turns out we misdiagnosed what the real problem was. Revert the previous changes, because they may have worse consequences going forward. A better fix is forthcoming. The simplistic test case is kept, though disabled. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171102112019.33wb7g5wp4zpjelu@alap3.anarazel.de
* Fix traversal of half-frozen update chainsAlvaro Herrera2017-10-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When some tuple versions in an update chain are frozen due to them being older than freeze_min_age, the xmax/xmin trail can become broken. This breaks HOT (and probably other things). A subsequent VACUUM can break things in more serious ways, such as leaving orphan heap-only tuples whose root HOT redirect items were removed. This can be seen because index creation (or REINDEX) complain like ERROR: XX000: failed to find parent tuple for heap-only tuple at (0,7) in table "t" Because of relfrozenxid contraints, we cannot avoid the freezing of the early tuples, so we must cope with the results: whenever we see an Xmin of FrozenTransactionId, consider it a match for whatever the previous Xmax value was. This problem seems to have appeared in 9.3 with multixact changes, though strictly speaking it seems unrelated. Since 9.4 we have commit 37484ad2a "Change the way we mark tuples as frozen", so the fix is simple: just compare the raw Xmin (still stored in the tuple header, since freezing merely set an infomask bit) to the Xmax. But in 9.3 we rewrite the Xmin value to FrozenTransactionId, so the original value is lost and we have nothing to compare the Xmax with. To cope with that case we need to compare the Xmin with FrozenXid, assume it's a match, and hope for the best. Sadly, since you can pg_upgrade a 9.3 instance containing half-frozen pages to newer releases, we need to keep the old check in newer versions too, which seems a bit brittle; I hope we can somehow get rid of that. I didn't optimize the new function for performance. The new coding is probably a bit slower than before, since there is a function call rather than a straight comparison, but I'd rather have it work correctly than be fast but wrong. This is a followup after 20b655224249 fixed a few related problems. Apparently, in 9.6 and up there are more ways to get into trouble, but in 9.3 - 9.5 I cannot reproduce a problem anymore with this patch, so there must be a separate bug. Reported-by: Peter Geoghegan Diagnosed-by: Peter Geoghegan, Michael Paquier, Daniel Wood, Yi Wen Wong, Álvaro Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wznm4rCrhFAiwKPWTpEw2bXDtgROZK7jWWGucXeH3D1fmA@mail.gmail.com
* Allow DML commands that create tables to use parallel query.Robert Haas2017-10-05
| | | | | | | | | | | Haribabu Kommi, reviewed by Dilip Kumar and Rafia Sabih. Various cosmetic changes by me to explain why this appears to be safe but allowing inserts in parallel mode in general wouldn't be. Also, I removed the REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW case from Haribabu's patch, since I'm not convinced that case is OK, and hacked on the documentation somewhat. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAJrrPGdo5bak6qnPWe8Kpi8g_jfQEs-G4SYmG9y+OFaw2-dPvA@mail.gmail.com
* Fix freezing of a dead HOT-updated tupleAlvaro Herrera2017-09-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Vacuum calls page-level HOT prune to remove dead HOT tuples before doing liveness checks (HeapTupleSatisfiesVacuum) on the remaining tuples. But concurrent transaction commit/abort may turn DEAD some of the HOT tuples that survived the prune, before HeapTupleSatisfiesVacuum tests them. This happens to activate the code that decides to freeze the tuple ... which resuscitates it, duplicating data. (This is especially bad if there's any unique constraints, because those are now internally violated due to the duplicate entries, though you won't know until you try to REINDEX or dump/restore the table.) One possible fix would be to simply skip doing anything to the tuple, and hope that the next HOT prune would remove it. But there is a problem: if the tuple is older than freeze horizon, this would leave an unfrozen XID behind, and if no HOT prune happens to clean it up before the containing pg_clog segment is truncated away, it'd later cause an error when the XID is looked up. Fix the problem by having the tuple freezing routines cope with the situation: don't freeze the tuple (and keep it dead). In the cases that the XID is older than the freeze age, set the HEAP_XMAX_COMMITTED flag so that there is no need to look up the XID in pg_clog later on. An isolation test is included, authored by Michael Paquier, loosely based on Daniel Wood's original reproducer. It only tests one particular scenario, though, not all the possible ways for this problem to surface; it be good to have a more reliable way to test this more fully, but it'd require more work. In message https://postgr.es/m/20170911140103.5akxptyrwgpc25bw@alvherre.pgsql I outlined another test case (more closely matching Dan Wood's) that exposed a few more ways for the problem to occur. Backpatch all the way back to 9.3, where this problem was introduced by multixact juggling. In branches 9.3 and 9.4, this includes a backpatch of commit e5ff9fefcd50 (of 9.5 era), since the original is not correctable without matching the coding pattern in 9.5 up. Reported-by: Daniel Wood Diagnosed-by: Daniel Wood Reviewed-by: Yi Wen Wong, Michaël Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E5711E62-8FDF-4DCA-A888-C200BF6B5742@amazon.com
* For wal_consistency_checking, mask page checksum as well as page LSN.Robert Haas2017-09-22
| | | | | | | | If the LSN is different, the checksum will be different, too. Ashwin Agrawal, reviewed by Michael Paquier and Kuntal Ghosh Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CALfoeis5iqrAU-+JAN+ZzXkpPr7+-0OAGv7QUHwFn=-wDy4o4Q@mail.gmail.com
* Improve performance of get_actual_variable_range with recently-dead tuples.Tom Lane2017-09-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In commit fccebe421, we hacked get_actual_variable_range() to scan the index with SnapshotDirty, so that if there are many uncommitted tuples at the end of the index range, it wouldn't laboriously scan through all of them looking for a live value to return. However, that didn't fix it for the case of many recently-dead tuples at the end of the index; SnapshotDirty recognizes those as committed dead and so we're back to the same problem. To improve the situation, invent a "SnapshotNonVacuumable" snapshot type and use that instead. The reason this helps is that, if the snapshot rejects a given index entry, we know that the indexscan will mark that index entry as killed. This means the next get_actual_variable_range() scan will proceed past that entry without visiting the heap, making the scan a lot faster. We may end up accepting a recently-dead tuple as being the estimated extremal value, but that doesn't seem much worse than the compromise we made before to accept not-yet-committed extremal values. The cost of the scan is still proportional to the number of dead index entries at the end of the range, so in the interval after a mass delete but before VACUUM's cleaned up the mess, it's still possible for get_actual_variable_range() to take a noticeable amount of time, if you've got enough such dead entries. But the constant factor is much much better than before, since all we need to do with each index entry is test its "killed" bit. We chose to back-patch commit fccebe421 at the time, but I'm hesitant to do so here, because this form of the problem seems to affect many fewer people. Also, even when it happens, it's less bad than the case fixed by commit fccebe421 because we don't get the contention effects from expensive TransactionIdIsInProgress tests. Dmitriy Sarafannikov, reviewed by Andrey Borodin Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/05C72CF7-B5F6-4DB9-8A09-5AC897653113@yandex.ru
* Separate reinitialization of shared parallel-scan state from ExecReScan.Tom Lane2017-08-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, the parallel executor logic did reinitialization of shared state within the ExecReScan code for parallel-aware scan nodes. This is problematic, because it means that the ExecReScan call has to occur synchronously (ie, during the parent Gather node's ReScan call). That is swimming very much against the tide so far as the ExecReScan machinery is concerned; the fact that it works at all today depends on a lot of fragile assumptions, such as that no plan node between Gather and a parallel-aware scan node is parameterized. Another objection is that because ExecReScan might be called in workers as well as the leader, hacky extra tests are needed in some places to prevent unwanted shared-state resets. Hence, let's separate this code into two functions, a ReInitializeDSM call and the ReScan call proper. ReInitializeDSM is called only in the leader and is guaranteed to run before we start new workers. ReScan is returned to its traditional function of resetting only local state, which means that ExecReScan's usual habits of delaying or eliminating child rescan calls are safe again. As with the preceding commit 7df2c1f8d, it doesn't seem to be necessary to make these changes in 9.6, which is a good thing because the FDW and CustomScan APIs are impacted. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1JkByysFJNh9M349u_nNjqETuEnY_y1VUc_kJiU0bxtaQ@mail.gmail.com
* Change tupledesc->attrs[n] to TupleDescAttr(tupledesc, n).Andres Freund2017-08-20
| | | | | | | | | | | This is a mechanical change in preparation for a later commit that will change the layout of TupleDesc. Introducing a macro to abstract the details of where attributes are stored will allow us to change that in separate step and revise it in future. Author: Thomas Munro, editorialized by Andres Freund Reviewed-By: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0ZtQ-SpsgCyzzYpsXS6e=kZWqk3g5Ygn3MDV7A8dabUA@mail.gmail.com