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Alvaro Herrera
93f84d59f8 Revert "Remove pointless HeapTupleHeaderIndicatesMovedPartitions calls"
This reverts commit 85adb5e91ec2.  It was not intended for commit just
yet.
2020-10-15 15:16:11 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera
85adb5e91e Remove pointless HeapTupleHeaderIndicatesMovedPartitions calls
Pavan Deolasee recently noted that a few of the
HeapTupleHeaderIndicatesMovedPartitions calls added by commit
5db6df0c0117 are useless, since they are done after comparing t_self
with t_ctid.  But because t_self can never be set to the magical values
that indicate that the tuple moved partition, this can never succeed: if
the first test fails (so we know t_self equals t_ctid), necessarily the
second test will also fail.

So these checks can be removed and no harm is done.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200929164411.GA15497@alvherre.pgsql
2020-10-15 14:32:34 -03:00
David Rowley
110d81728a Fixup some appendStringInfo and appendPQExpBuffer calls
A number of places were using appendStringInfo() when they could have been
using appendStringInfoString() instead.  While there's no functionality
change there, it's just more efficient to use appendStringInfoString()
when no formatting is required.  Likewise for some
appendStringInfoString() calls which were just appending a single char.
We can just use appendStringInfoChar() for that.

Additionally, many places were using appendPQExpBuffer() when they could
have used appendPQExpBufferStr(). Change those too.

Patch by Zhijie Hou, but further searching by me found significantly more
places that deserved the same treatment.

Author: Zhijie Hou, David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cb172cf4361e4c7ba7167429070979d4@G08CNEXMBPEKD05.g08.fujitsu.local
2020-10-15 20:35:17 +13:00
Tom Lane
371668a838 Fix GiST buffering build to work when there are included columns.
gistRelocateBuildBuffersOnSplit did not get the memo about which
attribute count to use.  This could lead to a crash if there were
included columns and buffering build was chosen.  (Because there
are random page-split decisions elsewhere in GiST index build,
the crashes are not entirely deterministic.)

Back-patch to v12 where GiST gained support for included columns.

Pavel Borisov

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALT9ZEECCV5m7wvxg46PC-7x-EybUmnpupBGhSFMoAAay+r6HQ@mail.gmail.com
2020-10-12 18:01:34 -04:00
Tom Lane
78c0b6ed27 Re-allow testing of GiST buffered builds.
Commit 16fa9b2b3 broke the ability to reliably test GiST buffered builds,
because it caused sorted builds to be done instead if sortsupport is
available, regardless of any attempt to override that.  While a would-be
test case could try to work around that by choosing an opclass that has
no sortsupport function, coverage would be silently lost the moment
someone decides it'd be a good idea to add a sortsupport function.

Hence, rearrange the logic in gistbuild() so that if "buffering = on"
is specified in CREATE INDEX, we will use that method, sortsupport or no.

Also document the interaction between sorting and the buffering
parameter, as 16fa9b2b3 failed to do.

(Note that in fact we still lack any test coverage of buffered builds,
but this is a prerequisite to adding a non-fragile test.)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3249980.1602532990@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-10-12 17:09:50 -04:00
Michael Paquier
b90b79e140 Fix typo in multixact.c
AtEOXact_MultiXact() was referenced in two places with an incorrect
routine name.

Author: Hou Zhijie
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1b41e9311e8f474cb5a360292f0b3cb1@G08CNEXMBPEKD05.g08.fujitsu.local
2020-10-08 14:06:12 +09:00
Michael Paquier
0a3c864c32 Fix compilation warning in xlog.c
Oversight in 9d0bd95.

Reported-by: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201006023802.qqfi6m5bw5y77zql@alap3.anarazel.de
2020-10-06 15:29:34 +09:00
Fujii Masao
8d9a935965 Add pg_stat_wal statistics view.
This view shows the statistics about WAL activity. Currently it has only
two columns: wal_buffers_full and stats_reset. wal_buffers_full column
indicates the number of times WAL data was written to the disk because
WAL buffers got full. This information is useful when tuning wal_buffers.
stats_reset column indicates the time at which these statistics were
last reset.

pg_stat_wal view is also the basic infrastructure to expose other
various statistics about WAL activity later.

Bump PGSTAT_FILE_FORMAT_ID due to the change in pgstat format.

Bump catalog version.

Author: Masahiro Ikeda
Reviewed-by: Takayuki Tsunakawa, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Amit Kapila, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/188bd3f2d2233cf97753b5ced02bb050@oss.nttdata.com
2020-10-02 10:17:11 +09:00
Michael Paquier
9d0bd95fa9 Add block information in error context of WAL REDO apply loop
Providing this information can be useful for example when diagnosing
problems related to recovery conflicts or for recovery issues without
having to go through the output generated by pg_waldump to get some
information about the blocks a WAL record works on.

The block information is printed in the same format as pg_waldump.  This
already existed in xlog.c for debugging purposes with -DWAL_DEBUG, so
adding the block information in the callback has required just a small
refactoring.

Author: Bertrand Drouvot
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c31e2cba-efda-762c-f4ad-5c25e5dac3d0@amazon.com
2020-10-02 09:31:50 +09:00
Heikki Linnakangas
265ea56785 Set right-links during sorted GiST index build.
This is not strictly necessary, as the right-links are only needed by
scans that are concurrent with page splits, and neither scans or page
splits can happen during sorted index build. But it seems like a good
idea to set them anyway, if we e.g. want to add a check to amcheck in
the future to verify that the chain of right-links is complete.

Author: Andrey Borodin
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/4D68C21F-9FB9-41DA-B663-FDFC8D143788%40yandex-team.ru
2020-10-01 11:10:43 +03:00
Thomas Munro
dee663f784 Defer flushing of SLRU files.
Previously, we called fsync() after writing out individual pg_xact,
pg_multixact and pg_commit_ts pages due to cache pressure, leading to
regular I/O stalls in user backends and recovery.  Collapse requests for
the same file into a single system call as part of the next checkpoint,
as we already did for relation files, using the infrastructure developed
by commit 3eb77eba.  This can cause a significant improvement to
recovery performance, especially when it's otherwise CPU-bound.

Hoist ProcessSyncRequests() up into CheckPointGuts() to make it clearer
that it applies to all the SLRU mini-buffer-pools as well as the main
buffer pool.  Rearrange things so that data collected in CheckpointStats
includes SLRU activity.

Also remove the Shutdown{CLOG,CommitTS,SUBTRANS,MultiXact}() functions,
because they were redundant after the shutdown checkpoint that
immediately precedes them.  (I'm not sure if they were ever needed, but
they aren't now.)

Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> (parts)
Tested-by: Jakub Wartak <Jakub.Wartak@tomtom.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGLJ=84YT+NvhkEEDAuUtVHMfQ9i-N7k_o50JmQ6Rpj_OQ@mail.gmail.com
2020-09-25 19:00:15 +12:00
Peter Eisentraut
c005eb00e7 Standardize the printf format for st_size
Existing code used various inconsistent ways to printf struct stat's
st_size member.  The type of that is off_t, which is in most cases a
signed 64-bit integer, so use the long long int format for it.
2020-09-24 21:04:21 +02:00
Thomas Munro
aca74843e4 Fix missing fsync of SLRU directories.
Harmonize behavior by moving reponsibility for fsyncing directories down
into slru.c.  In 10 and later, only the multixact directories were
missed (see commit 1b02be21), and in older branches all SLRUs were
missed.

Back-patch to all supported releases.

Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGLtsTUOScnNoSMZ-2ZLv%2BwGh01J6kAo_DM8mTRq1sKdSQ%40mail.gmail.com
2020-09-24 10:39:52 +12:00
Tom Lane
9436041ed8 Copy editing: fix a bunch of misspellings and poor wording.
99% of this is docs, but also a couple of comments.  No code changes.

Justin Pryzby

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200919175804.GE30557@telsasoft.com
2020-09-21 12:43:42 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas
c47a240fe6 Fix checksum calculation in the new sorting GiST build.
Since we're bypassing the buffer manager, we need to call
PageSetChecksumInplace() directly. As reported by Justin Pryzby.

In the passing, add RelationOpenSmgr() calls before all smgrwrite() and
smgrextend() calls. Tom added one before the first smgrextend() call in
commit c2bb287025, which seems to be enough, but let's play it safe and
do it before each one. That's how it's done in the similar code in
nbtsort.c, too.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20200920224446.GF30557@telsasoft.com
2020-09-21 14:50:07 +03:00
Tom Lane
c2bb287025 Fix new GIST build code to work under CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS.
Can't say if this fixes *all* cases, but at least we get through
the "point" regression test now, which hyrax's last run did not.

Report: https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=hyrax&dt=2020-09-19%2021%3A27%3A23
2020-09-20 17:08:49 -04:00
Amit Kapila
0d32511eca Fix comments in heapam.c.
After commits 85f6b49c2c and 3ba59ccc89, we can allow parallel inserts
which was earlier not possible as parallel group members won't conflict
for relation extension and page lock.  In those commits, we forgot to
update comments at few places.

Author: Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas and Dilip Kumar
Backpatch-through: 13
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFiTN-tMrQh5FFMPx5aWJ+1gi1H6JxktEhq5mDwCHgnEO5oBkA@mail.gmail.com
2020-09-18 09:50:44 +05:30
Amit Kapila
b7f2dd959a Update parallel BTree scan state when the scan keys can't be satisfied.
For parallel btree scan to work for array of scan keys, it should reach
BTPARALLEL_DONE state once for every distinct combination of array keys.
This is required to ensure that the parallel workers don't try to seize
blocks at the same time for different scan keys. We missed to update this
state when we discovered that the scan keys can't be satisfied.

Author: James Hunter
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Tested-by: Justin Pryzby
Backpatch-through: 10, where it was introduced
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4248CABC-25E3-4809-B4D0-128E1BAABC3C@amazon.com
2020-09-17 16:11:48 +05:30
Heikki Linnakangas
16fa9b2b30 Add support for building GiST index by sorting.
This adds a new optional support function to the GiST access method:
sortsupport. If it is defined, the GiST index is built by sorting all data
to the order defined by the sortsupport's comparator function, and packing
the tuples in that order to GiST pages. This is similar to how B-tree
index build works, and is much faster than inserting the tuples one by
one. The resulting index is smaller too, because the pages are packed more
tightly, upto 'fillfactor'. The normal build method works by splitting
pages, which tends to lead to more wasted space.

The quality of the resulting index depends on how good the opclass-defined
sort order is. A good order preserves locality of the input data.

As the first user of this facility, add 'sortsupport' function to the
point_ops opclass. It sorts the points in Z-order (aka Morton Code), by
interleaving the bits of the X and Y coordinates.

Author: Andrey Borodin
Reviewed-by: Pavel Borisov, Thomas Munro
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/1A36620E-CAD8-4267-9067-FB31385E7C0D%40yandex-team.ru
2020-09-17 11:33:40 +03:00
David Rowley
10a5b35a00 Report resource usage at the end of recovery
Reporting this has been rather useful in some recent recovery speedup
work.  It also seems like something that will be useful to the average DBA
too.

Author: David Rowley
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvqYVORiZxq2xPvP6_ndmmsTkvr6jSYv4UTNaFa5i1kd%3DQ%40mail.gmail.com
2020-09-16 11:25:46 +12:00
Peter Eisentraut
3e0242b24c Message fixes and style improvements 2020-09-14 06:42:30 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera
9f1cf97bb5
Print WAL logical message contents in pg_waldump
This helps debuggability when looking at WAL streams containing logical
messages.

Author: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAExHW5sWx49rKmXbg5H1Xc1t+nRv9PaYKQmgw82HPt6vWDVmDg@mail.gmail.com
2020-09-10 19:37:02 -03:00
Tom Lane
a5cc4dab6d Yet more elimination of dead stores and useless initializations.
I'm not sure what tool Ranier was using, but the ones I contributed
were found by using a newer version of scan-build than I tried before.

Ranier Vilela and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEudQAo1+AcGppxDSg8k+zF4+Kv+eJyqzEDdbpDg58-=MQcerQ@mail.gmail.com
2020-09-05 13:17:32 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera
f43e295f68
Report expected contrecord length on mismatch
When reading a WAL record fails to find continuation record(s) of the
proper length, report what it expects, for clarity.

Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200903212152.GA15319@alvherre.pgsql
2020-09-04 14:58:32 -04:00
Tom Lane
38a2d70329 Remove some more useless assignments.
Found with clang's scan-build tool.  It also whines about a lot of
other dead stores that we should *not* change IMO, either as a matter
of style or future-proofing.  But these places seem like clear
oversights.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEudQAo1+AcGppxDSg8k+zF4+Kv+eJyqzEDdbpDg58-=MQcerQ@mail.gmail.com
2020-09-04 14:32:19 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
e36e936e0e remove redundant initializations
Reported-by: Ranier Vilela

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEudQAo1+AcGppxDSg8k+zF4+Kv+eJyqzEDdbpDg58-=MQcerQ@mail.gmail.com

Author: Ranier Vilela

Backpatch-through: master
2020-09-03 22:57:35 -04:00
Michael Paquier
1d65416661 Improve handling of dropped relations for REINDEX DATABASE/SCHEMA/SYSTEM
When multiple relations are reindexed, a scan of pg_class is done first
to build the list of relations to work on.  However the REINDEX logic
has never checked if a relation listed still exists when beginning the
work on it, causing for example sudden cache lookup failures.

This commit adds safeguards against dropped relations for REINDEX,
similarly to VACUUM or CLUSTER where we try to open the relation,
ignoring it if it is missing.  A new option is added to the REINDEX
routines to control if a missed relation is OK to ignore or not.

An isolation test, based on REINDEX SCHEMA, is added for the concurrent
and non-concurrent cases.

Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Anastasia Lubennikova
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200813043805.GE11663@paquier.xyz
2020-09-02 09:08:12 +09:00
Tom Lane
a7212be8b9 Set cutoff xmin more aggressively when vacuuming a temporary table.
Since other sessions aren't allowed to look into a temporary table
of our own session, we do not need to worry about the global xmin
horizon when setting the vacuum XID cutoff.  Indeed, if we're not
inside a transaction block, we may set oldestXmin to be the next
XID, because there cannot be any in-doubt tuples in a temp table,
nor any tuples that are dead but still visible to some snapshot of
our transaction.  (VACUUM, of course, is never inside a transaction
block; but we need to test that because CLUSTER shares the same code.)

This approach allows us to always clean out a temp table completely
during VACUUM, independently of concurrent activity.  Aside from
being useful in its own right, that simplifies building reproducible
test cases.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3490536.1598629609@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-09-01 18:40:43 -04:00
Tom Lane
3d351d916b Redefine pg_class.reltuples to be -1 before the first VACUUM or ANALYZE.
Historically, we've considered the state with relpages and reltuples
both zero as indicating that we do not know the table's tuple density.
This is problematic because it's impossible to distinguish "never yet
vacuumed" from "vacuumed and seen to be empty".  In particular, a user
cannot use VACUUM or ANALYZE to override the planner's normal heuristic
that an empty table should not be believed to be empty because it is
probably about to get populated.  That heuristic is a good safety
measure, so I don't care to abandon it, but there should be a way to
override it if the table is indeed intended to stay empty.

Hence, represent the initial state of ignorance by setting reltuples
to -1 (relpages is still set to zero), and apply the minimum-ten-pages
heuristic only when reltuples is still -1.  If the table is empty,
VACUUM or ANALYZE (but not CREATE INDEX) will override that to
reltuples = relpages = 0, and then we'll plan on that basis.

This requires a bunch of fiddly little changes, but we can get rid of
some ugly kluges that were formerly needed to maintain the old definition.

One notable point is that FDWs' GetForeignRelSize methods will see
baserel->tuples = -1 when no ANALYZE has been done on the foreign table.
That seems like a net improvement, since those methods were formerly
also in the dark about what baserel->tuples = 0 really meant.  Still,
it is an API change.

I bumped catversion because code predating this change would get confused
by seeing reltuples = -1.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/F02298E0-6EF4-49A1-BCB6-C484794D9ACC@thebuild.com
2020-08-30 12:21:51 -04:00
Tom Lane
10564ee02c Fix code for re-finding scan position in a multicolumn GIN index.
collectMatchBitmap() needs to re-find the index tuple it was previously
looking at, after transiently dropping lock on the index page it's on.
The tuple should still exist and be at its prior position or somewhere
to the right of that, since ginvacuum never removes tuples but
concurrent insertions could add one.  However, there was a thinko in
that logic, to the effect of expecting any inserted tuples to have the
same index "attnum" as what we'd been scanning.  Since there's no
physical separation of tuples with different attnums, it's not terribly
hard to devise scenarios where this fails, leading to transient "lost
saved point in index" errors.  (While I've duplicated this with manual
testing, it seems impossible to make a reproducible test case with our
available testing technology.)

Fix by just continuing the scan when the attnum doesn't match.

While here, improve the error message used if we do fail, so that it
matches the wording used in btree for a similar case.

collectMatchBitmap()'s posting-tree code path was previously not
exercised at all by our regression tests.  While I can't make
a regression test that exhibits the bug, I can at least improve
the code coverage here, so do that.  The test case I made for this
is an extension of one added by 4b754d6c1, so it only works in
HEAD and v13; didn't seem worth trying hard to back-patch it.

Per bug #16595 from Jesse Kinkead.  This has been broken since
multicolumn capability was added to GIN (commit 27cb66fdf),
so back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16595-633118be8eef9ce2@postgresql.org
2020-08-27 17:36:13 -04:00
Amit Kapila
7e453634bb Add additional information in the vacuum error context.
The additional information added will be an offset number for heap
operations. This information will help us in finding the exact tuple due
to which the error has occurred.

Author: Mahendra Singh Thalor and Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Sawada Masahiko, Justin Pryzby and Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKYtNApK488TDF4bMbw+1QH8HJf9cxdNDXquhU50TK5iv_FtCQ@mail.gmail.com
2020-08-26 09:40:52 +05:30
Amit Kapila
a3c66de6c5 Improve the vacuum error context phase information.
We were displaying the wrong phase information for 'info' message in the
index clean up phase because we were switching to the previous phase a bit
early. We were also not displaying context information for heap phase
unless the block number is valid which is fine for error cases but for
messages at 'info' or lower error level it appears to be inconsistent with
index phase information.

Reported-by: Sawada Masahiko
Author: Sawada Masahiko
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 13, where it was introduced
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+fd4k4HcbhPnCs7paRTw1K-AHin8y4xKomB9Ru0ATw0UeTy2w@mail.gmail.com
2020-08-24 08:16:19 +05:30
Andres Freund
c62a0a49f3 Revert "Make vacuum a bit more verbose to debug BF failure."
This reverts commit 49967da65aec970fcda123acc681f1df5d70bfc6.

Enough time has passed that we can be confident that 07f32fcd23a
resolved the issue. Therefore we can remove the temporary debugging
aids.

Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1k7tGP-0005V0-5k@gemulon.postgresql.org
2020-08-20 12:59:00 -07:00
Heikki Linnakangas
a28d731a11 Mark commit and abort WAL records with XLR_SPECIAL_REL_UPDATE.
If a commit or abort record includes "dropped relfilenodes", then replaying
the record will remove data files. That is surely a "special rel update",
but the records were not marked as such. Fix that, teach pg_rewind to
expect and ignore them, and add a test case to cover it.

It's always been like this, but no backporting for fear of breaking
existing applications. If an application parsed the WAL but was not
handling commit/abort records, it would stop working. That might be a good
thing if it really needed to handle the dropped rels, but it will be caught
when the application is updated to work with PostgreSQL v14 anyway.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/07b33e2c-46a6-86a1-5f9e-a7da73fddb95%40iki.fi
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila, Michael Paquier
2020-08-17 10:52:58 +03:00
Andres Freund
49967da65a Make vacuum a bit more verbose to debug BF failure.
This is temporary. While possibly some more error checking / debugging
in this path would be a good thing, it'll not look exactly like this.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200816181604.l54m6kss5ntd6xow@alap3.anarazel.de
2020-08-16 12:57:01 -07:00
Noah Misch
676a9c3cc4 Correct several behavior descriptions in comments.
Reuse cautionary language from src/test/ssl/README in
src/test/kerberos/README.  SLRUs have had access to six-character
segments names since commit 73c986adde5d73a5e2555da9b5c8facedb146dcd,
and recovery stopped calling HeapTupleHeaderAdvanceLatestRemovedXid() in
commit 558a9165e081d1936573e5a7d576f5febd7fb55a.  The other corrections
are more self-evident.
2020-08-15 20:21:52 -07:00
Noah Misch
566372b3d6 Prevent concurrent SimpleLruTruncate() for any given SLRU.
The SimpleLruTruncate() header comment states the new coding rule.  To
achieve this, add locktype "frozenid" and two LWLocks.  This closes a
rare opportunity for data loss, which manifested as "apparent
wraparound" or "could not access status of transaction" errors.  Data
loss is more likely in pg_multixact, due to released branches' thin
margin between multiStopLimit and multiWrapLimit.  If a user's physical
replication primary logged ":  apparent wraparound" messages, the user
should rebuild standbys of that primary regardless of symptoms.  At less
risk is a cluster having emitted "not accepting commands" errors or
"must be vacuumed" warnings at some point.  One can test a cluster for
this data loss by running VACUUM FREEZE in every database.  Back-patch
to 9.5 (all supported versions).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190218073103.GA1434723@rfd.leadboat.com
2020-08-15 10:15:53 -07:00
Andres Freund
73487a60fc snapshot scalability: Move subxact info to ProcGlobal, remove PGXACT.
Similar to the previous changes this increases the chance that data
frequently needed by GetSnapshotData() stays in l2 cache. In many
workloads subtransactions are very rare, and this makes the check for
that considerably cheaper.

As this removes the last member of PGXACT, there is no need to keep it
around anymore.

On a larger 2 socket machine this and the two preceding commits result
in a ~1.07x performance increase in read-only pgbench. For read-heavy
mixed r/w workloads without row level contention, I see about 1.1x.

Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200301083601.ews6hz5dduc3w2se@alap3.anarazel.de
2020-08-14 15:33:35 -07:00
Andres Freund
5788e258bb snapshot scalability: Move PGXACT->vacuumFlags to ProcGlobal->vacuumFlags.
Similar to the previous commit this increases the chance that data
frequently needed by GetSnapshotData() stays in l2 cache. As we now
take care to not unnecessarily write to ProcGlobal->vacuumFlags, there
should be very few modifications to the ProcGlobal->vacuumFlags array.

Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200301083601.ews6hz5dduc3w2se@alap3.anarazel.de
2020-08-14 15:33:35 -07:00
Andres Freund
941697c3c1 snapshot scalability: Introduce dense array of in-progress xids.
The new array contains the xids for all connected backends / in-use
PGPROC entries in a dense manner (in contrast to the PGPROC/PGXACT
arrays which can have unused entries interspersed).

This improves performance because GetSnapshotData() always needs to
scan the xids of all live procarray entries and now there's no need to
go through the procArray->pgprocnos indirection anymore.

As the set of running top-level xids changes rarely, compared to the
number of snapshots taken, this substantially increases the likelihood
of most data required for a snapshot being in l2 cache.  In
read-mostly workloads scanning the xids[] array will sufficient to
build a snapshot, as most backends will not have an xid assigned.

To keep the xid array dense ProcArrayRemove() needs to move entries
behind the to-be-removed proc's one further up in the array. Obviously
moving array entries cannot happen while a backend sets it
xid. I.e. locking needs to prevent that array entries are moved while
a backend modifies its xid.

To avoid locking ProcArrayLock in GetNewTransactionId() - a fairly hot
spot already - ProcArrayAdd() / ProcArrayRemove() now needs to hold
XidGenLock in addition to ProcArrayLock. Adding / Removing a procarray
entry is not a very frequent operation, even taking 2PC into account.

Due to the above, the dense array entries can only be read or modified
while holding ProcArrayLock and/or XidGenLock. This prevents a
concurrent ProcArrayRemove() from shifting the dense array while it is
accessed concurrently.

While the new dense array is very good when needing to look at all
xids it is less suitable when accessing a single backend's xid. In
particular it would be problematic to have to acquire a lock to access
a backend's own xid. Therefore a backend's xid is not just stored in
the dense array, but also in PGPROC. This also allows a backend to
only access the shared xid value when the backend had acquired an
xid.

The infrastructure added in this commit will be used for the remaining
PGXACT fields in subsequent commits. They are kept separate to make
review easier.

Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200301083601.ews6hz5dduc3w2se@alap3.anarazel.de
2020-08-14 15:33:35 -07:00
Peter Geoghegan
914140e85a Fix obsolete comment in xlogutils.c.
Oversight in commit 2c03216d831.
2020-08-14 11:09:08 -07:00
Andres Freund
1f51c17c68 snapshot scalability: Move PGXACT->xmin back to PGPROC.
Now that xmin isn't needed for GetSnapshotData() anymore, it leads to
unnecessary cacheline ping-pong to have it in PGXACT, as it is updated
considerably more frequently than the other PGXACT members.

After the changes in dc7420c2c92, this is a very straight-forward change.

For highly concurrent, snapshot acquisition heavy, workloads this change alone
can significantly increase scalability. E.g. plain pgbench on a smaller 2
socket machine gains 1.07x for read-only pgbench, 1.22x for read-only pgbench
when submitting queries in batches of 100, and 2.85x for batches of 100
'SELECT';.  The latter numbers are obviously not to be expected in the
real-world, but micro-benchmark the snapshot computation
scalability (previously spending ~80% of the time in GetSnapshotData()).

Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200301083601.ews6hz5dduc3w2se@alap3.anarazel.de
2020-08-13 16:25:21 -07:00
Alvaro Herrera
a811ea5bde
Handle new HOT chains in index-build table scans
When a table is scanned by heapam_index_build_range_scan (née
IndexBuildHeapScan) and the table lock being held allows concurrent data
changes, it is possible for new HOT chains to sprout in a page that were
unknown when the scan of a page happened.  This leads to an error such
as
  ERROR:  failed to find parent tuple for heap-only tuple at (X,Y) in table "tbl"
because the root tuple was not present when we first obtained the list
of the page's root tuples.  This can be fixed by re-obtaining the list
of root tuples, if we see that a heap-only tuple appears to point to a
non-existing root.

This was reported by Anastasia as occurring for BRIN summarization
(which exists since 9.5), but I think it could theoretically also happen
with CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY (much older) or REINDEX CONCURRENTLY
(very recent).  It seems a happy coincidence that BRIN forces us to
backpatch this all the way to 9.5.

Reported-by: Anastasia Lubennikova <a.lubennikova@postgrespro.ru>
Diagnosed-by: Anastasia Lubennikova <a.lubennikova@postgrespro.ru>
Co-authored-by: Anastasia Lubennikova <a.lubennikova@postgrespro.ru>
Co-authored-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/602d8487-f0b2-5486-0088-0f372b2549fa@postgrespro.ru
Backpatch: 9.5 - master
2020-08-13 17:33:49 -04:00
Andres Freund
b8443eae72 Fix out-of-date version reference, grammar.
Time appears to be passing fast.

Reported-By: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
2020-08-12 17:04:51 -07:00
Andres Freund
dc7420c2c9 snapshot scalability: Don't compute global horizons while building snapshots.
To make GetSnapshotData() more scalable, it cannot not look at at each proc's
xmin: While snapshot contents do not need to change whenever a read-only
transaction commits or a snapshot is released, a proc's xmin is modified in
those cases. The frequency of xmin modifications leads to, particularly on
higher core count systems, many cache misses inside GetSnapshotData(), despite
the data underlying a snapshot not changing. That is the most
significant source of GetSnapshotData() scaling poorly on larger systems.

Without accessing xmins, GetSnapshotData() cannot calculate accurate horizons /
thresholds as it has so far. But we don't really have to: The horizons don't
actually change that much between GetSnapshotData() calls. Nor are the horizons
actually used every time a snapshot is built.

The trick this commit introduces is to delay computation of accurate horizons
until there use and using horizon boundaries to determine whether accurate
horizons need to be computed.

The use of RecentGlobal[Data]Xmin to decide whether a row version could be
removed has been replaces with new GlobalVisTest* functions.  These use two
thresholds to determine whether a row can be pruned:
1) definitely_needed, indicating that rows deleted by XIDs >= definitely_needed
   are definitely still visible.
2) maybe_needed, indicating that rows deleted by XIDs < maybe_needed can
   definitely be removed
GetSnapshotData() updates definitely_needed to be the xmin of the computed
snapshot.

When testing whether a row can be removed (with GlobalVisTestIsRemovableXid())
and the tested XID falls in between the two (i.e. XID >= maybe_needed && XID <
definitely_needed) the boundaries can be recomputed to be more accurate. As it
is not cheap to compute accurate boundaries, we limit the number of times that
happens in short succession.  As the boundaries used by
GlobalVisTestIsRemovableXid() are never reset (with maybe_needed updated by
GetSnapshotData()), it is likely that further test can benefit from an earlier
computation of accurate horizons.

To avoid regressing performance when old_snapshot_threshold is set (as that
requires an accurate horizon to be computed), heap_page_prune_opt() doesn't
unconditionally call TransactionIdLimitedForOldSnapshots() anymore. Both the
computation of the limited horizon, and the triggering of errors (with
SetOldSnapshotThresholdTimestamp()) is now only done when necessary to remove
tuples.

This commit just removes the accesses to PGXACT->xmin from
GetSnapshotData(), but other members of PGXACT residing in the same
cache line are accessed. Therefore this in itself does not result in a
significant improvement. Subsequent commits will take advantage of the
fact that GetSnapshotData() now does not need to access xmins anymore.

Note: This contains a workaround in heap_page_prune_opt() to keep the
snapshot_too_old tests working. While that workaround is ugly, the tests
currently are not meaningful, and it seems best to address them separately.

Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200301083601.ews6hz5dduc3w2se@alap3.anarazel.de
2020-08-12 16:03:49 -07:00
Alvaro Herrera
1f42d35a1d
BRIN: Handle concurrent desummarization properly
If a page range is desummarized at just the right time concurrently with
an index walk, BRIN would raise an error indicating index corruption.
This is scary and unhelpful; silently returning that the page range is
not summarized is sufficient reaction.

This bug was introduced by commit 975ad4e602ff as additional protection
against a bug whose actual fix was elsewhere.  Backpatch equally.

Reported-By: Anastasia Lubennikova <a.lubennikova@postgrespro.ru>
Diagnosed-By: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2588667e-d07d-7e10-74e2-7e1e46194491@postgrespro.ru
Backpatch: 9.5 - master
2020-08-12 15:33:36 -04:00
Andres Freund
3bd7f9969a Track latest completed xid as a FullTransactionId.
The reason for doing so is that a subsequent commit will need that to
avoid wraparound issues. As the subsequent change is large this was
split out for easier review.

The reason this is not a perfect straight-forward change is that we do
not want track 64bit xids in the procarray or the WAL. Therefore we
need to advance lastestCompletedXid in relation to 32 bit xids. The
code for that is now centralized in MaintainLatestCompletedXid*.

Author: Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro, Robert Haas, David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200301083601.ews6hz5dduc3w2se@alap3.anarazel.de
2020-08-11 17:41:18 -07:00
Andres Freund
fea10a6434 Rename VariableCacheData.nextFullXid to nextXid.
Including Full in variable names duplicates the type information and
leads to overly long names. As FullTransactionId cannot accidentally
be casted to TransactionId that does not seem necessary.

Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200724011143.jccsyvsvymuiqfxu@alap3.anarazel.de
2020-08-11 12:07:14 -07:00
Peter Eisentraut
1784f278a6 Replace remaining StrNCpy() by strlcpy()
They are equivalent, except that StrNCpy() zero-fills the entire
destination buffer instead of providing just one trailing zero.  For
all but a tiny number of callers, that's just overhead rather than
being desirable.

Remove StrNCpy() as it is now unused.

In some cases, namestrcpy() is the more appropriate function to use.
While we're here, simplify the API of namestrcpy(): Remove the return
value, don't check for NULL input.  Nothing was using that anyway.
Also, remove a few unused name-related functions.

Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/44f5e198-36f6-6cdb-7fa9-60e34784daae%402ndquadrant.com
2020-08-10 23:20:37 +02:00
Peter Geoghegan
d129c07499 Correct nbtree page split lock coupling comment.
There is no reason to distinguish between readers and writers here.
2020-08-09 12:01:15 -07:00