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Remove the "snapshot too old" feature.

Remove the old_snapshot_threshold setting and mechanism for producing
the error "snapshot too old", originally added by commit 848ef42b.
Unfortunately it had a number of known problems in terms of correctness
and performance, mostly reported by Andres in the course of his work on
snapshot scalability.  We agreed to remove it, after a long period
without an active plan to fix it.

This is certainly a desirable feature, and someone might propose a new
or improved implementation in the future.

Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACG%3DezYV%2BEvO135fLRdVn-ZusfVsTY6cH1OZqWtezuEYH6ciQA%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200401064008.qob7bfnnbu4w5cw4%40alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BTgmoY%3Daqf0zjTD%2B3dUWYkgMiNDegDLFjo%2B6ze%3DWtpik%2B3XqA%40mail.gmail.com
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Thomas Munro
2023-09-05 18:26:12 +12:00
parent aa0d350456
commit f691f5b80a
50 changed files with 21 additions and 1425 deletions

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@@ -250,8 +250,6 @@ extern void AbortBufferIO(Buffer buffer);
extern bool BgBufferSync(struct WritebackContext *wb_context);
extern void TestForOldSnapshot_impl(Snapshot snapshot, Relation relation);
/* in buf_init.c */
extern void InitBufferPool(void);
extern Size BufferShmemSize(void);
@@ -347,9 +345,6 @@ BufferGetPageSize(Buffer buffer)
/*
* BufferGetPage
* Returns the page associated with a buffer.
*
* When this is called as part of a scan, there may be a need for a nearby
* call to TestForOldSnapshot(). See the definition of that for details.
*/
static inline Page
BufferGetPage(Buffer buffer)
@@ -357,37 +352,6 @@ BufferGetPage(Buffer buffer)
return (Page) BufferGetBlock(buffer);
}
/*
* Check whether the given snapshot is too old to have safely read the given
* page from the given table. If so, throw a "snapshot too old" error.
*
* This test generally needs to be performed after every BufferGetPage() call
* that is executed as part of a scan. It is not needed for calls made for
* modifying the page (for example, to position to the right place to insert a
* new index tuple or for vacuuming). It may also be omitted where calls to
* lower-level functions will have already performed the test.
*
* Note that a NULL snapshot argument is allowed and causes a fast return
* without error; this is to support call sites which can be called from
* either scans or index modification areas.
*
* For best performance, keep the tests that are fastest and/or most likely to
* exclude a page from old snapshot testing near the front.
*/
static inline void
TestForOldSnapshot(Snapshot snapshot, Relation relation, Page page)
{
Assert(relation != NULL);
if (old_snapshot_threshold >= 0
&& (snapshot) != NULL
&& ((snapshot)->snapshot_type == SNAPSHOT_MVCC
|| (snapshot)->snapshot_type == SNAPSHOT_TOAST)
&& !XLogRecPtrIsInvalid((snapshot)->lsn)
&& PageGetLSN(page) > (snapshot)->lsn)
TestForOldSnapshot_impl(snapshot, relation);
}
#endif /* FRONTEND */
#endif /* BUFMGR_H */