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Make large sequential scans and VACUUMs work in a limited-size "ring" of

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buffers, rather than blowing out the whole shared-buffer arena.  Aside from
avoiding cache spoliation, this fixes the problem that VACUUM formerly tended
to cause a WAL flush for every page it modified, because we had it hacked to
use only a single buffer.  Those flushes will now occur only once per
ring-ful.  The exact ring size, and the threshold for seqscans to switch into
the ring usage pattern, remain under debate; but the infrastructure seems
done.  The key bit of infrastructure is a new optional BufferAccessStrategy
object that can be passed to ReadBuffer operations; this replaces the former
StrategyHintVacuum API.

This patch also changes the buffer usage-count methodology a bit: we now
advance usage_count when first pinning a buffer, rather than when last
unpinning it.  To preserve the behavior that a buffer's lifetime starts to
decrease when it's released, the clock sweep code is modified to not decrement
usage_count of pinned buffers.

Work not done in this commit: teach GiST and GIN indexes to use the vacuum
BufferAccessStrategy for vacuum-driven fetches.

Original patch by Simon, reworked by Heikki and again by Tom.
This commit is contained in:
Tom Lane
2007-05-30 20:12:03 +00:00
parent 0a6f2ee84d
commit d526575f89
24 changed files with 722 additions and 262 deletions
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src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtree.c
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* Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
*
* IDENTIFICATION
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtree.c,v 1.154 2007/01/05 22:19:23 momjian Exp $
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtree.c,v 1.155 2007/05/30 20:11:53 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
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/*
* We can't use _bt_getbuf() here because it always applies
* _bt_checkpage(), which will barf on an all-zero page. We want to
* recycle all-zero pages, not fail.
* recycle all-zero pages, not fail. Also, we want to use a nondefault
* buffer access strategy.
*/
buf = ReadBuffer(rel, blkno);
buf = ReadBufferWithStrategy(rel, blkno, info->strategy);
LockBuffer(buf, BT_READ);
page = BufferGetPage(buf);
opaque = (BTPageOpaque) PageGetSpecialPointer(page);