Some tests try to invalidate logical slots on the standby server by
running VACUUM on the primary. The problem is that xl_running_xacts was
getting generated and replayed before the VACUUM command, leading to the
advancement of the active slot's catalog_xmin. Due to this, active slots
were not getting invalidated, leading to test failures.
We fix it by skipping the generation of xl_running_xacts for the required
tests with the help of injection points. As the required interface for
injection points was not present in back branches, we fixed the failing
tests in them by disallowing the slot to become active for the required
cases (where rows_removed conflict could be generated).
Author: Hayato Kuroda <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Backpatch-through: 16, where it was introduced
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z6oQXc8LmiTLfwLA@ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal
Introduce new pg_shmem_alloctions_numa view with information about how
shared memory is distributed across NUMA nodes. For each shared memory
segment, the view returns one row for each NUMA node backing it, with
the total amount of memory allocated from that node.
The view may be relatively expensive, especially when executed for the
first time in a backend, as it has to touch all memory pages to get
reliable information about the NUMA node. This may also force allocation
of the shared memory.
Unlike pg_shmem_allocations, the view does not show anonymous shared
memory allocations. It also does not show memory allocated using the
dynamic shared memory infrastructure.
Author: Jakub Wartak <jakub.wartak@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKZiRmxh6KWo0aqRqvmcoaX2jUxZYb4kGp3N%3Dq1w%2BDiH-696Xw%40mail.gmail.com
In some edge cases valgrind flags issues with the memory referenced by
IOs. All of the cases addressed in this change are false positives.
Most of the false positives are caused by UnpinBuffer[NoOwner] marking buffer
data as inaccessible. This happens even though the AIO subsystem still holds a
pin. That's good, there shouldn't be accesses to the buffer outside of AIO
related code until it is pinned by "user" code again. But it requires some
explicit work - if the buffer is not pinned by the current backend, we need to
explicitly mark the buffer data accessible/inaccessible while executing
completion callbacks.
That however causes a cascading issue in IO workers: After the completion
callbacks for a buffer is executed, the page is marked as inaccessible. If
subsequently the same worker is executing IO targeting the same buffer, we
would get an error, as the memory is still marked inaccessible. To avoid that,
we need to explicitly mark the memory as accessible in IO workers.
Another issue is that IO executed in workers or via io_uring will not mark
memory as DEFINED. In the case of workers that is because valgrind does not
track memory definedness across processes. For io_uring that is because
valgrind does not understand io_uring, and therefore its IOs never mark memory
as defined, whether the completions are processed in the defining process or
in another context. It's not entirely clear how to best solve that. The
current user of AIO is not affected, as it explicitly marks buffers as DEFINED
& NOACCESS anyway. Defer solving this issue until we have a user with
different needs.
Per buildfarm animal skink.
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Co-authored-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3pd4322mogfmdd5nln3zphdwhtmq3rzdldqjwb2sfqzcgs22lf@ok2gletdaoe6
This mirrors 1e0dfd166b (+ 46ef520b95), for temporary table buffers. This
is mainly interesting right now because the AIO work currently triggers
spurious valgrind errors, and the fix for that is cleaner if temp buffers
behave the same as shared buffers.
This requires one change beyond the annotations themselves, namely to pin
local buffers while writing them out in FlushRelationBuffers().
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Co-authored-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3pd4322mogfmdd5nln3zphdwhtmq3rzdldqjwb2sfqzcgs22lf@ok2gletdaoe6
If the limit returned by GetAdditionalPinLimit() is large, the buffer_limit
variable in read_stream_start_pending_read() can overflow. While the code is
careful to limit buffer_limit PG_INT16_MAX, we subsequently add the number of
forwarded buffers.
The overflow can lead to assertion failures, crashes or wrong query results
when using large shared buffers.
It seems easier to avoid this if we make the buffer_limit variable an int,
instead of an int16. Do so, and clamp buffer_limit after adding the number of
forwarded buffers.
It's possible we might want to address this and related issues more widely by
changing to int instead of int16 more widely, but since the consequences of
this bug can be confusing, it seems better to fix it now.
This bug was introduced in ed0b87caac.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ewvz3cbtlhrwqk7h6ca6cctiqh7r64ol3pzb3iyjycn2r5nxk5@tnhw3a5zatlr
Various places allocated shared memory by first allocating a small chunk
using ShmemInitStruct(), followed by ShmemAlloc() calls to allocate more
memory. Unfortunately, ShmemAlloc() does not update ShmemIndex, so this
affected pg_shmem_allocations - it only shown the initial chunk.
This commit modifies the following allocations, to allocate everything
as a single chunk, and then split it internally.
- PredXactList
- RWConflictPool
- PGPROC structures
- Fast-Path Lock Array
The fast-path lock array is allocated separately, not as a part of the
PGPROC structures allocation.
Author: Rahila Syed <rahilasyed90@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2L28vHzRankszhqz7deXURxKncxfirnuW68zD7+hVAqaS5GQ@mail.gmail.com
pg_shmem_allocations tracks the memory allocated by ShmemInitStruct(),
but for shared hash tables that covered only the header and hash
directory. The remaining parts (segments and buckets) were allocated
later using ShmemAlloc(), which does not update the shmem accounting.
Thus, these allocations were not shown in pg_shmem_allocations.
This commit improves the situation by allocating all the hash table
parts at once, using a single ShmemInitStruct() call. This way the
ShmemIndex entries (and thus pg_shmem_allocations) better reflect the
proper size of the hash table.
This affects allocations for private (non-shared) hash tables too, as
the hash_create() code is shared. For non-shared tables this however
makes no practical difference.
This changes the alignment a bit. ShmemAlloc() aligns the chunks using
CACHELINEALIGN(), which means some parts (header, directory, segments)
were aligned this way. Allocating all parts as a single chunk removes
this (implicit) alignment. We've considered adding explicit alignment,
but we've decided not to - it seems to be merely a coincidence due to
using the ShmemAlloc() API, not due to necessity.
Author: Rahila Syed <rahilasyed90@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2L28vHzRankszhqz7deXURxKncxfirnuW68zD7+hVAqaS5GQ@mail.gmail.com
Currently, the cancel request key is a 32-bit token, which isn't very
much entropy. If you want to cancel another session's query, you can
brute-force it. In most environments, an unauthorized cancellation of
a query isn't very serious, but it nevertheless would be nice to have
more protection from it. Hence make the key longer, to make it harder
to guess.
The longer cancellation keys are generated when using the new protocol
version 3.2. For connections using version 3.0, short 4-bytes keys are
still used.
The new longer key length is not hardcoded in the protocol anymore,
the client is expected to deal with variable length keys, up to 256
bytes. This flexibility allows e.g. a connection pooler to add more
information to the cancel key, which might be useful for finding the
connection.
Reviewed-by: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> (earlier versions)
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/508d0505-8b7a-4864-a681-e7e5edfe32aa@iki.fi
Push an ErrorContextCallback adding additional detail about the process
performing the I/O and the owner of the I/O when those are not the same.
For io_method worker, this adds context specifying which process owns
the I/O that the I/O worker is processing.
For io_method io_uring, this adds context only when a backend is
*completing* I/O for another backend. It specifies the pid of the owning
process.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/rdml3fpukrqnas7qc5uimtl2fyytrnu6ymc2vjf2zuflbsjuul%40hyizyjsexwmm
mdreadv() has a codepath to zero out buffers when a read returns zero bytes,
guarded by a check for zero_damaged_pages || InRecovery.
The InRecovery codepath to zero out buffers in mdreadv() appears to be
unreachable. The only known paths to reach mdreadv()/mdstartreadv() in
recovery are XLogReadBufferExtended(), vm_readbuf(), and fsm_readbuf(), each
of which takes care to extend the relation if necessary. This looks to either
have been the case for a long time, or the code was never reachable.
The zero_damaged_pages path is incomplete, as missing segments are not
created.
Putting blocks into the buffer-pool that do not exist on disk is rather
problematic, as such blocks will, at least initially, not be found by scans
that rely on smgrnblocks(), as they are beyond EOF. It also can cause weird
problems with relation extension, as relation extension does not expect blocks
beyond EOF to exist.
Therefore we would like to remove that path.
mdstartreadv(), which I added in e5fe570b51c, does not implement this zeroing
logic. I had started a discussion about that a while ago (linked below), but
forgot to act on the conclusion of the discussion, namely to disable the
in-memory-zeroing behavior.
We could certainly implement equivalent zeroing logic in mdstartreadv(), but
it would have to be more complicated due to potential differences in the
zero_damaged_pages setting between the definer and completor of IO. Given that
we want to remove the logic, that does not seem worth implementing the
necessary logic.
For now, put an Assert(false) and comments documenting this choice into
mdreadv() and comments documenting the deprecation of the path in mdreadv()
and the non-implementation of it in mdstartreadv(). If we, during testing,
discover that we do need the path, we can implement it at that time.
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/postgr.es/m/20250330024513.ac.nmisch@google.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/postgr.es/m/3qxxsnciyffyf3wyguiz4besdp5t5uxvv3utg75cbcszojlz7p@uibfzmnukkbd
Submitting IO in larger batches can be more efficient than doing so
one-by-one, particularly for many small reads. It does, however, require
the ReadStreamBlockNumberCB callback to abide by the restrictions of AIO
batching (c.f. pgaio_enter_batchmode()). Basically, the callback may not:
a) block without first calling pgaio_submit_staged(), unless a
to-be-waited-on lock cannot be part of a deadlock, e.g. because it is
never held while waiting for IO.
b) directly or indirectly start another batch pgaio_enter_batchmode()
As this requires care and is nontrivial in some cases, batching is only
used with explicit opt-in.
This patch adds an explicit flag (READ_STREAM_USE_BATCHING) to read_stream and
uses it where appropriate.
There are two cases where batching would likely be beneficial, but where we
aren't using it yet:
1) bitmap heap scans, because the callback reads the VM
This should soon be solved, because we are planning to remove the use of
the VM, due to that not being sound.
2) The first phase of heap vacuum
This could be made to support batchmode, but would require some care.
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/uvrtrknj4kdytuboidbhwclo4gxhswwcpgadptsjvjqcluzmah%40brqs62irg4dt
Adapt the read stream logic for real AIO:
- If AIO is enabled, we shouldn't issue advice, but if it isn't, we should
continue issuing advice
- AIO benefits from reading ahead with direct IO
- If effective_io_concurrency=0, pass READ_BUFFERS_SYNCHRONOUSLY to
StartReadBuffers() to ensure synchronous IO execution
There are further improvements we should consider:
- While in read_stream_look_ahead(), we can use AIO batch submission mode for
increased efficiency. That however requires care to avoid deadlocks and thus
done separately.
- It can be beneficial to defer starting new IOs until we can issue multiple
IOs at once. That however requires non-trivial heuristics to decide when to
do so.
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Co-authored-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Co-authored-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
This finally introduces the first actual use of AIO. StartReadBuffers() now
uses the AIO routines to issue IO.
As the implementation of StartReadBuffers() is also used by the functions for
reading individual blocks (StartReadBuffer() and through that
ReadBufferExtended()) this means all buffered read IO passes through the AIO
paths. However, as those are synchronous reads, actually performing the IO
asynchronously would be rarely beneficial. Instead such IOs are flagged to
always be executed synchronously. This way we don't have to duplicate a fair
bit of code.
When io_method=sync is used, the IO patterns generated after this change are
the same as before, i.e. actual reads are only issued in WaitReadBuffers() and
StartReadBuffers() may issue prefetch requests. This allows to bypass most of
the actual asynchronicity, which is important to make a change as big as this
less risky.
One thing worth calling out is that, if IO is actually executed
asynchronously, the precise meaning of what track_io_timing is measuring has
changed. Previously it tracked the time for each IO, but that does not make
sense when multiple IOs are executed concurrently. Now it only measures the
time actually spent waiting for IO. A subsequent commit will adjust the docs
for this.
While AIO is now actually used, the logic in read_stream.c will often prevent
using sufficiently many concurrent IOs. That will be addressed in the next
commit.
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Co-authored-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/uvrtrknj4kdytuboidbhwclo4gxhswwcpgadptsjvjqcluzmah%40brqs62irg4dt
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210223100344.llw5an2aklengrmn@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/stj36ea6yyhoxtqkhpieia2z4krnam7qyetc57rfezgk4zgapf@gcnactj4z56m
This commit implements the infrastructure to perform asynchronous reads into
the buffer pool.
To do so, it:
- Adds readv AIO callbacks for shared and local buffers
It may be worth calling out that shared buffer completions may be run in a
different backend than where the IO started.
- Adds an AIO wait reference to BufferDesc, to allow backends to wait for
in-progress asynchronous IOs
- Adapts StartBufferIO(), WaitIO(), TerminateBufferIO(), and their localbuf.c
equivalents, to be able to deal with AIO
- Moves the code to handle BM_PIN_COUNT_WAITER into a helper function, as it
now also needs to be called on IO completion
As of this commit, nothing issues AIO on shared/local buffers. A future commit
will update StartReadBuffers() to do so.
Buffer reads executed through this infrastructure will report invalid page /
checksum errors / warnings differently than before:
In the error case the error message will cover all the blocks that were
included in the read, rather than just the reporting the first invalid
block. If more than one block is invalid, the error will include information
about the range of the read, the first invalid block and the number of invalid
pages, with a HINT towards the server log for per-block details.
For the warning case (i.e. zero_damaged_buffers) we would previously emit one
warning message for each buffer in a multi-block read. Now there is only a
single warning message for the entire read, again referring to the server log
for more details in case of multiple checksum failures within a single larger
read.
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Reviewed-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/uvrtrknj4kdytuboidbhwclo4gxhswwcpgadptsjvjqcluzmah%40brqs62irg4dt
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210223100344.llw5an2aklengrmn@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/stj36ea6yyhoxtqkhpieia2z4krnam7qyetc57rfezgk4zgapf@gcnactj4z56m
If an IO succeeds, but issues a warning, e.g. due to a page verification
failure with zero_damaged_pages, we want to issue that warning in the context
of the issuer of the IO, not the process that executes the completion (always
the case for worker).
It's already possible for a completion callback to report a custom error
message, we just didn't have a result status that allowed a user of AIO to
know that a warning should be emitted even though the IO request succeeded.
All that's needed for that is a dedicated PGAIO_RS_ value.
Previously there were not enough bits in PgAioResult.id for the new
value. Increase. While at that, add defines for the amount of bits and static
asserts to check that the widths are appropriate.
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20250329212929.a6.nmisch@google.com
For AIO the completion of a read into shared buffers (i.e. verifying the page
including the checksum, updating the BufferDesc to reflect the IO) can happen
in a different backend than the backend that started the IO. As
ignore_checksum_failure can differ between backends, we need to allow the
caller of PageIsVerified() control whether to ignore checksum failures.
The commit leaves a gap in the PIV_* values, as an upcoming commit, which
depends on this commit, will add PIV_LOG_LOG, which better fits just after
PIV_LOG_WARNING.
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20250329212929.a6.nmisch@google.com
For AIO we execute completion callbacks in critical sections (to ensure that
AIO can in the future be used for WAL, which in turn requires that we can call
completion callbacks in critical sections, to get the resources for WAL
io). To report checksum errors a backend now has to call
pgstat_prepare_report_checksum_failure(), before entering a critical section,
which guarantees the relevant pgstats entry is in shared memory, the relevant
DSM segment is mapped into the backend's memory and the address is known via a
PgStat_EntryRef.
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/wkjj4p2rmkevutkwc6tewoovdqznj6c6nvjmvii4oo5wmbh5sr@retq7d6uqs4j
For AIO on temporary table buffers the AIO subsystem needs to be able to
ensure a pin on a buffer while AIO is going on, even if the IO issuing query
errors out. Tracking the buffer in LocalRefCount does not work, as it would
cause CheckForLocalBufferLeaks() to assert out.
Instead, also track the refcount in BufferDesc.state, not just
LocalRefCount. This also makes local buffers behave a bit more akin to shared
buffers.
Note that we still don't need locking, AIO completion callbacks for local
buffers are executed in the issuing session (i.e. nobody else has access to
the BufferDesc).
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/uvrtrknj4kdytuboidbhwclo4gxhswwcpgadptsjvjqcluzmah%40brqs62irg4dt
Checksum failure stats could be attributed to the wrong database in two cases:
- when a read of a shared relation encountered a checksum error , it would be
attributed to the current database, instead of the "database" representing
shared relations
- when using CREATE DATABASE ... STRATEGY WAL_LOG checksum errors in the
source database would be attributed to the current database
The checksum stats reporting via PageIsVerifiedExtended(PIV_REPORT_STAT) does
not have access to the information about what database a page belongs to.
This fixes the issue by removing PIV_REPORT_STAT and delegating the
responsibility to report stats to the caller, which now can learn about the
number of stats via a new optional argument.
As this changes the signature of PageIsVerifiedExtended() and all callers
should adapt to the new signature, use the occasion to rename the function to
PageIsVerified() and remove the compatibility macro.
We could instead have fixed this by adding information about the database to
the args of PageIsVerified(), but there are soon-to-be-applied patches that
need to separate the stats reporting from the PageIsVerified() call
anyway. Those patches also include testing for the failure paths, something we
inexplicably have not had.
As there is no caller of pgstat_report_checksum_failure() left, remove it.
It'd be possible, but awkward to fix this in the back branches. We considered
doing the work not quite worth it, as mis-attributed stats should still elicit
concern. The emitted error messages do allow to attribute the errors
correctly.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5tyic6epvdlmd6eddgelv47syg2b5cpwffjam54axp25xyq2ga@ptwkinxqo3az
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/mglpvvbhighzuwudjxzu4br65qqcxsnyvio3nl4fbog3qknwhg@e4gt7npsohuz
check_createrole_self_grant and check_synchronized_standby_slots
were allocating memory on a LOG elevel without checking if the
allocation succeeded or not, which would have led to a segfault
on allocation failure.
On top of that, a number of callsites were using the ERROR level,
relying on erroring out rather than returning false to allow the
GUC machinery handle it gracefully. Other callsites used WARNING
instead of LOG. While neither being not wrong, this changes all
check_ functions do it consistently with LOG.
init_custom_variable gets a promoted elevel to FATAL to keep
the guc_malloc error handling in line with the rest of the
error handling in that function which already call FATAL. If
we encounter an OOM in this callsite there is no graceful
handling to be had, better to error out hard.
Backpatch the fix to check_createrole_self_grant down to v16
and the fix to check_synchronized_standby_slots down to v17
where they were introduced.
Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Reported-by: Nikita <pm91.arapov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Bug: #18845
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18845-582c6e10247377ec@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 16
The implementation of FSM for indexes is simpler than heap, where 0 is
used to track if a page is in-use and (BLCKSZ - 1) if a page is free.
One comment in indexfsm.c and one description in the documentation of
pg_freespacemap were incorrect about that.
Author: Alex Friedman <alexf01@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/71eef655-c192-453f-ac45-2772fec2cb04@gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 13
The old naming pattern (mirroring liburing's naming) was inconsistent with
the (not yet introduced) callers. It seems better to get rid of the
inconsistency now than to grow more users of the odd naming.
Reported-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20250326001915.bc.nmisch@google.com
Otherwise the results of e.g. temp table buffer verification errors will not
reach bufmgr.c. Obviously that's not right. Found while expanding the tests
for invalid buffer contents.
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20250326001915.bc.nmisch@google.com
As reported by Noah, it's possible, although practically very unlikely, that
interrupts could be processed in between pgaio_io_reopen() and
pgaio_io_perform_synchronously(). Prevent that by explicitly holding
interrupts.
It also seems good to add an assertion to pgaio_io_before_prep() to ensure
that interrupts are held, as otherwise FDs referenced by the IO could be
closed during interrupt processing. All code in the aio series currently runs
the code with interrupts held, but it seems better to be paranoid.
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Reported-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20250324002939.5c.nmisch@google.com
Until now max_files_per_process=N limited each backend to open N files in
total (minus a safety factor), even if there were already more files opened in
postmaster and inherited by backends. Change max_files_per_process to control
how many additional files each process is allowed to open.
The main motivation for this is the patch to add io_method=io_uring, which
needs to open one file for each backend. Without this patch, even if
RLIMIT_NOFILE is high enough, postmaster will fail in set_max_safe_fds() if
started with a high max_connections. The cause of the failure is that, until
now, set_max_safe_fds() subtracted the already open files from
max_files_per_process.
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/w6uiicyou7hzq47mbyejubtcyb2rngkkf45fk4q7inue5kfbeo@bbfad3qyubvs
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGECzQQh6VSy3KG4pN1d=h9J=D1rStFCMR+t7yh_Kwj-g87aLQ@mail.gmail.com
During hot standby, ExpireAllKnownAssignedTransactionIds() and
ExpireOldKnownAssignedTransactionIds() functions mark old transactions
as no-longer running, but they failed to update xactCompletionCount
and latestCompletedXid. AFAICS it would not lead to incorrect query
results, because those functions effectively turn in-progress
transactions into aborted transactions and an MVCC snapshot considers
both as "not visible". But it could surprise GetSnapshotDataReuse()
and trigger the "TransactionIdPrecedesOrEquals(TransactionXmin,
RecentXmin))" assertion in it, if the apparent xmin in a backend would
move backwards. We saw this happen when GetCatalogSnapshot() would
reuse an older catalog snapshot, when GetTransactionSnapshot() had
already advanced TransactionXmin.
The bug goes back all the way to commit 623a9ba79b in v14 that
introduced the snapshot reuse mechanism, but it started to happen more
frequently with commit 952365cded which removed a
GetTransactionSnapshot() call from backend startup. That made it more
likely for ExpireOldKnownAssignedTransactionIds() to be called between
GetCatalogSnapshot() and the first GetTransactionSnapshot() in a
backend.
Andres Freund first spotted this assertion failure on buildfarm member
'skink'. Reproduction and analysis by Tomas Vondra.
Backpatch-through: 14
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/oey246mcw43cy4qw2hqjmurbd62lfdpcuxyqiu7botx3typpax%40h7o7mfg5zmdj
This code must have missed a memo about the backend type description
being supplied automatically these days, and was duplicating that
information.
Before: "io worker io worker: N"
After: "io worker N"
StartReadBuffers() reports a short read when it finds a cached block
that ends a range needing I/O by updating the caller's *nblocks. It
doesn't want to have to unpin the trailing hit that it knows the caller
wants, so the v17 version used sleight of hand in the name of
simplicity: it included it in *nblocks as if it were part of the I/O,
but internally tracked the shorter real I/O size in io_buffers_len (now
removed).
This API change "forwards" the delimiting buffer to the next call. It's
still pinned, and still stored in the caller's array, but *nblocks no
longer includes stray buffers that are not really part of the operation.
The expectation is that the caller still wants the rest of the blocks
and will call again starting from that point, and now it can pass the
already pinned buffer back in (or choose not to and release it).
The change is needed for the coming asynchronous I/O version's larger
version of the problem: by definition it must move BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS
negotiation from WaitReadBuffers() to StartReadBuffers(), but it might
already have many buffers pinned before it discovers a need to split an
I/O. (The current synchronous I/O version hides that detail from
callers by looping over smaller reads if required to make all covered
buffers valid in WaitReadBuffers(), so it looks like one operation but
it might occasionally be several under the covers.)
Aside from avoiding unnecessary pin traffic, this will also be important
for later work on out-of-order streams: you can't prioritize data that
is already available right now if that fact is hidden from you.
The new API is natural for read_stream.c (see ed0b87ca). After a short
read it leaves forwarded buffers where they fell in its circular queue
for the continuing call to pick up.
Single-block StartReadBuffer() and traditional ReadBuffer() share code
but are not affected by the change. They don't do multi-block I/O.
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> (earlier versions)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGK_%3D4CVmMHvsHjOVrK6t4F%3DLBpFzsrr3R%2BaJYN8kcTfWg%40mail.gmail.com
In preparation for a follow-up change to the buffer manager, teach
read_stream.c to manage buffers "forwarded" from one StartReadBuffers()
call to the next after a short read. This involves a small amount of
extra book-keeping, and opens the way for lower levels to split I/O
operations without having to drop pins, as required for efficient
handling of various edge cases.
Concretely, the "buffers" argument will change from an out parameter to
an in/out parameter. Buffer queue elements must be initialized on first
use and cleared after they're consumed, but forwarded buffers are left
where they fall ahead of the current pending read in the queue, ready
for use by the operation that continues where a short read left off.
The stream also needs to count them for pin limit management and release
them on reset/early end.
Tested-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> (earlier versions)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGK_%3D4CVmMHvsHjOVrK6t4F%3DLBpFzsrr3R%2BaJYN8kcTfWg%40mail.gmail.com
Previously we would have the following inaccuracies when a backend tried to
read in a buffer, but that buffer was read in concurrently by another backend:
- the read IO was double-counted in the global buffer access stats (pgBufferUsage)
- the buffer hit was not accounted for in:
- global buffer access statistics
- pg_stat_io
- relation level IO stats
- vacuum cost balancing
While trying to read in a buffer that is concurrently read in by another
backend is not a common occurrence, it's also not that rare, e.g. due to
concurrent sequential scans on the same relation. This scenario has become
more likely in PG 17, due to the introducing of read streams, which can pin
multiple buffers before calling StartBufferIO() for all the buffers.
This behaviour has historically grown, but there doesn't seem to be any reason
to continue with the wrong accounting.
Reviewed-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_Zk-B08AzPsO-6680LUHLOCGaNJYofaxTFseLa=OepV1g@mail.gmail.com
We need to hold interrupts across most of the smgr.c/md.c functions, as
otherwise interrupt processing, e.g. due to a < ERROR elog/ereport, can
trigger procsignal processing, which in turn can trigger smgrreleaseall(). As
the relevant code is not reentrant, we quickly end up in a bad situation.
The only reason we haven't noticed this before is that there is only one
non-error ereport called in affected routines, in register_dirty_segments(),
and that one is extremely rarely reached. If one enables fd.c's FDDEBUG it's
easy to reproduce crashes.
It seems better to put the HOLD_INTERRUPTS()/RESUME_INTERRUPTS() in smgr.c,
instead of trying to push them down to md.c where possible: For one, every
smgr implementation would be vulnerable, for another, a good bit of smgr.c
code itself is affected too.
Eventually we might want a more targeted solution, allowing e.g. a networked
smgr implementation to be interrupted, but many other, more complicated,
problems would need to be fixed for that to be viable (e.g. smgr.c is often
called with interrupts already held).
One could argue this should be backpatched, but the existing < ERROR
elog/ereports that can be reached with unmodified sources are unlikely to be
reached. On balance the risk of backpatching seems higher than the gain - at
least for now.
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3vae7l5ozvqtxmd7rr7zaeq3qkuipz365u3rtim5t5wdkr6f4g@vkgf2fogjirl
The default of 128kB is unchanged, but the upper limit is changed from
32 blocks to 128 blocks, unless the operating system's IOV_MAX is too
low. Some other RDBMSes seem to cap their multi-block buffer pool I/O
around this number, and it seems useful to allow experimentation.
The concrete change is to our definition of PG_IOV_MAX, which provides
the maximum for io_combine_limit and io_max_combine_limit. It also
affects a couple of other places that work with arrays of struct iovec
or smaller objects on the stack, so we still don't want to use the
system IOV_MAX directly without a clamp: it is not under our control and
likely to be 1024. 128 seems acceptable for our current usage.
For Windows, we can't use real scatter/gather yet, so we continue to
define our own IOV_MAX value of 16 and emulate preadv()/pwritev() with
loops. Someone would need to research the trade-offs of raising that
number.
NB if trying to see this working: you might temporarily need to hack
BAS_BULKREAD to be bigger, since otherwise the obvious way of "a very
big SELECT" is limited by that for now.
Suggested-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2B2T9p-%2BzM6Eeou-RAJjTML6eit1qn26f9twznX59qtCA%40mail.gmail.com
The existing io_combine_limit can be changed by users. The new
io_max_combine_limit is fixed at server startup time, and functions as a
silent clamp on the user setting. That in itself is probably quite
useful, but the primary motivation is:
aio_init.c allocates shared memory for all asynchronous IOs including
some per-block data, and we didn't want to waste memory you'd never used
by assuming they could be up to PG_IOV_MAX. This commit already halves
the size of 'AioHandleIov' and 'AioHandleData'. A follow-up commit can
now expand PG_IOV_MAX without affecting that.
Since our GUC system doesn't support dependencies or cross-checks
between GUCs, the user-settable one now assigns a "raw" value to
io_combine_limit_guc, and the lower of io_combine_limit_guc and
io_max_combine_limit is maintained in io_combine_limit.
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> (earlier version)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2B2T9p-%2BzM6Eeou-RAJjTML6eit1qn26f9twznX59qtCA%40mail.gmail.com
This commit contains the basic, system-wide, infrastructure for
io_method=worker. It does not yet actually execute IO, this commit just
provides the infrastructure for running IO workers, kept separate for easier
review.
The number of IO workers can be adjusted with a PGC_SIGHUP GUC. Eventually
we'd like to make the number of workers dynamically scale up/down based on the
current "IO load".
To allow the number of IO workers to be increased without a restart, we need
to reserve PGPROC entries for the workers unconditionally. This has been
judged to be worth the cost. If it turns out to be problematic, we can
introduce a PGC_POSTMASTER GUC to control the maximum number.
As io workers might be needed during shutdown, e.g. for AIO during the
shutdown checkpoint, a new PMState phase is added. IO workers are shut down
after the shutdown checkpoint has been performed and walsender/archiver have
shut down, but before the checkpointer itself shuts down. See also
87a6690cc6.
Updates PGSTAT_FILE_FORMAT_ID due to the addition of a new BackendType.
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Co-authored-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/uvrtrknj4kdytuboidbhwclo4gxhswwcpgadptsjvjqcluzmah%40brqs62irg4dt
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210223100344.llw5an2aklengrmn@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/stj36ea6yyhoxtqkhpieia2z4krnam7qyetc57rfezgk4zgapf@gcnactj4z56m
