It is not appropriate for deduplication to apply single value strategy
when triggered by a bottom-up index deletion pass. This wastes cycles
because later bottom-up deletion passes will overinterpret older
duplicate tuples that deduplication actually just skipped over "by
design". It also makes bottom-up deletion much less effective for low
cardinality indexes that happen to cross a meaningless "index has single
key value per leaf page" threshold.
To fix, slightly narrow the conditions under which deduplication's
single value strategy is considered. We already avoided the strategy
for a unique index, since our high level goal must just be to buy time
for VACUUM to run (not to buy space). We'll now also avoid it when we
just had a bottom-up pass that reported failure. The two cases share
the same high level goal, and already overlapped significantly, so this
approach is quite natural.
Oversight in commit d168b666, which added bottom-up index deletion.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WznaOvM+Gyj-JQ0X=JxoMDxctDTYjiEuETdAGbF5EUc3MA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 14-, where bottom-up deletion was introduced.
I noticed that commit 0bead9af48 left this flag undocumented in
XLogSetRecordFlags, which led me to discover that the flag doesn't
actually do what the one comment on it said it does. Improve the
situation by adding some more comments.
Backpatch to 14, where the aforementioned commit appears.
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202109212119.c3nhfp64t2ql@alvherre.pgsql
WAL records may span multiple segments, but XLogWrite() does not
wait for the entire record to be written out to disk before
creating archive status files. Instead, as soon as the last WAL page of
the segment is written, the archive status file is created, and the
archiver may process it. If PostgreSQL crashes before it is able to
write and flush the rest of the record (in the next WAL segment), the
wrong version of the first segment file lingers in the archive, which
causes operations such as point-in-time restores to fail.
To fix this, keep track of records that span across segments and ensure
that segments are only marked ready-for-archival once such records have
been completely written to disk.
This has always been wrong, so backpatch all the way back.
Author: Nathan Bossart <bossartn@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ryo Matsumura <matsumura.ryo@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CBDDFA01-6E40-46BB-9F98-9340F4379505@amazon.com
It appears that check_track_commit_timestamp was declared but has never
been defined in our code base. Likely this is just leftover cruft from
a development version of the original patch to add commit timestamps.
Let's just remove the useless declaration. The inclusion of guc.h also
seems surplus to requirements.
Author: Andrey Lepikhov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f49aefb5-edbb-633a-af07-3e777023a94d@postgrespro.ru
They are used in code that runs both during normal operation and during
WAL replay, and needs to behave differently during replay. Move them to
xlogutils.c, because that's where we have other helper functions used by
redo routines.
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/b3b71061-4919-e882-4857-27e370ab134a%40iki.fi
Macs don't understand O_DIRECT, but they can disable caching with a
separate fcntl() call. Extend the file opening functions in fd.c to
handle this for us if the caller passes in PG_O_DIRECT.
For now, this affects only WAL data and even then only if you set:
max_wal_senders=0
wal_level=minimal
This is not expected to be very useful on its own, but later proposed
patches will make greater use of direct I/O, and it'll be useful for
testing if developers on Macs can see the effects.
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2BADiyyHe0cun2wfT%2BSVnFVqNYPxoO6J9zcZkVO7%2BNGig%40mail.gmail.com
As of v14, pg_depend contains almost 7000 "pin" entries recording
the OIDs of built-in objects. This is a fair amount of bloat for
every database, and it adds time to pg_depend lookups as well as
initdb. We can get rid of all of those entries in favor of an OID
range check, i.e. "OIDs below FirstUnpinnedObjectId are pinned".
(template1 and the public schema are exceptions. Those exceptions
are now wired into IsPinnedObject() instead of initdb's code for
filling pg_depend, but it's the same amount of cruft either way.)
The contents of pg_shdepend are modified likewise.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3737988.1618451008@sss.pgh.pa.us
To add support for streaming transactions at prepare time into the
built-in logical replication, we need to do the following things:
* Modify the output plugin (pgoutput) to implement the new two-phase API
callbacks, by leveraging the extended replication protocol.
* Modify the replication apply worker, to properly handle two-phase
transactions by replaying them on prepare.
* Add a new SUBSCRIPTION option "two_phase" to allow users to enable
two-phase transactions. We enable the two_phase once the initial data sync
is over.
We however must explicitly disable replication of two-phase transactions
during replication slot creation, even if the plugin supports it. We
don't need to replicate the changes accumulated during this phase,
and moreover, we don't have a replication connection open so we don't know
where to send the data anyway.
The streaming option is not allowed with this new two_phase option. This
can be done as a separate patch.
We don't allow to toggle two_phase option of a subscription because it can
lead to an inconsistent replica. For the same reason, we don't allow to
refresh the publication once the two_phase is enabled for a subscription
unless copy_data option is false.
Author: Peter Smith, Ajin Cherian and Amit Kapila based on previous work by Nikhil Sontakke and Stas Kelvich
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila, Sawada Masahiko, Vignesh C, Dilip Kumar, Takamichi Osumi, Greg Nancarrow
Tested-By: Haiying Tang
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/02DA5F5E-CECE-4D9C-8B4B-418077E2C010@postgrespro.ru
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1+opiV4aFTmWWUF9h_32=HfPOW9vZASHarT0UA5oBrtGw@mail.gmail.com
The logic is implemented so as there can be a choice in the compression
used when building a WAL record, and an extra per-record bit is used to
track down if a block is compressed with PGLZ, LZ4 or nothing.
wal_compression, the existing parameter, is changed to an enum with
support for the following backward-compatible values:
- "off", the default, to not use compression.
- "pglz" or "on", to compress FPWs with PGLZ.
- "lz4", the new mode, to compress FPWs with LZ4.
Benchmarking has showed that LZ4 outclasses easily PGLZ. ZSTD would be
also an interesting choice, but going just with LZ4 for now makes the
patch minimalistic as toast compression is already able to use LZ4, so
there is no need to worry about any build-related needs for this
implementation.
Author: Andrey Borodin, Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3037310D-ECB7-4BF1-AF20-01C10BB33A33@yandex-team.ru
Before a restartpoint finishes PreallocXlogFiles(), a startup process
KeepFileRestoredFromArchive() call can unlink the preallocated segment.
If a CHECKPOINT sql command had elicited the restartpoint experiencing
the race condition, that sql command failed. Moreover, the restartpoint
omitted its log_checkpoints message and some inessential resource
reclamation. Prevent the ERROR by skipping open() of the segment.
Since these consequences are so minor, no back-patch.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210202151416.GB3304930@rfd.leadboat.com
Only initdb used it. initdb refuses to operate on a non-empty directory
and generally does not cope with pre-existing files of other kinds.
Hence, use the opportunity to simplify.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210202151416.GB3304930@rfd.leadboat.com
Commit ab596105b increased FirstBootstrapObjectId from 12000 to 13000,
but we've had some push-back about that. It's worrisome to reduce the
daylight between there and FirstNormalObjectId, because the number of
OIDs consumed during initdb for collation objects is hard to predict.
We can improve the situation by abandoning the assumption that these
OIDs must be globally unique. It should be sufficient for them to be
unique per-catalog. (Any code that's unhappy about that is broken
anyway, since no more than per-catalog uniqueness can be guaranteed
once the OID counter wraps around.) With that change, the largest OID
assigned during genbki.pl (starting from a base of 10000) is a bit
under 11000. This allows reverting FirstBootstrapObjectId to 12000
with reasonable confidence that that will be sufficient for many years
to come.
We are not, at this time, abandoning the expectation that
hand-assigned OIDs (below 10000) are globally unique. Someday that'll
likely be necessary, but the need seems years away still.
This is late for v14, but it seems worth doing it now so that
downstream software doesn't have to deal with the consequences of
a change in FirstBootstrapObjectId. In any case, we already
bought into forcing an initdb for beta2, so another catversion
bump won't hurt.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1665197.1622065382@sss.pgh.pa.us
Redefine '\0' (InvalidCompressionMethod) as meaning "if we need to
compress, use the current setting of default_toast_compression".
This allows '\0' to be a suitable default choice regardless of
datatype, greatly simplifying code paths that initialize tupledescs
and the like. It seems like a more user-friendly approach as well,
because now the default compression choice doesn't migrate into table
definitions, meaning that changing default_toast_compression is
usually sufficient to flip an installation's behavior; one needn't
tediously issue per-column ALTER SET COMPRESSION commands.
Along the way, fix a few minor bugs and documentation issues
with the per-column-compression feature. Adopt more robust
APIs for SetIndexStorageProperties and GetAttributeCompression.
Bump catversion because typical contents of attcompression will now
be different. We could get away without doing that, but it seems
better to ensure v14 installations all agree on this. (We already
forced initdb for beta2, anyway.)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/626613.1621787110@sss.pgh.pa.us
Now that attcompression is just a char, there's a lot of wasted
padding space after it. Move it into the group of char-wide
columns to save a net of 4 bytes per pg_attribute entry. While
we're at it, swap the order of attstorage and attalign to make for
a more logical grouping of these columns.
Also re-order actions in related code to match the new field ordering.
This patch also fixes one outright bug: equalTupleDescs() failed to
compare attcompression. That could, for example, cause relcache
reload to fail to adopt a new value following a change.
Michael Paquier and Tom Lane, per a gripe from Andres Freund.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210517204803.iyk5wwvwgtjcmc5w@alap3.anarazel.de
Also "make reformat-dat-files".
The only change worthy of note is that pgindent messed up the formatting
of launcher.c's struct LogicalRepWorkerId, which led me to notice that
that struct wasn't used at all anymore, so I just took it out.
This set of commits has some bugs with known fixes, but at this late
stage in the release cycle it seems best to revert and resubmit next
time, along with some new automated test coverage for this whole area.
Commits reverted:
dc88460c: Doc: Review for "Optionally prefetch referenced data in recovery."
1d257577: Optionally prefetch referenced data in recovery.
f003d9f8: Add circular WAL decoding buffer.
323cbe7c: Remove read_page callback from XLogReader.
Remove the new GUC group WAL_RECOVERY recently added by a55a9847, as the
corresponding section of config.sgml is now reverted.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOuzzgrn7iKnFRsB4MHp3UisEQAGgZMbk_ViTN4HV4-Ksq8zCg%40mail.gmail.com
Commit f003d9f87 left this macro with inadequate (or, one could say,
too much) parenthesization. Which was catastrophic to the correctness
of calls such as "if (!XLogRecHasBlockRef(record, 1)) ...". There
are only a few of those, which perhaps explains why we didn't notice
immediately (with our general weakness of WAL replay testing being
another factor). I found it by debugging intermittent replay failures
like
2021-04-08 14:33:30.191 EDT [29463] PANIC: failed to locate backup block with ID 1
2021-04-08 14:33:30.191 EDT [29463] CONTEXT: WAL redo at 0/95D3438 for SPGist/ADD_NODE: off 1; blkref #0: rel 1663/16384/25998, blk 1
Commit 438fc4a39c prevented the WAL replay from writing
COMMIT_TS_SETTS record. By this change there is no code that
generates COMMIT_TS_SETTS record in PostgreSQL core.
Also we can think that there are no extensions using the record
because we've not received so far any complaints about the issue
that commit 438fc4a39c fixed. Therefore this commit removes
COMMIT_TS_SETTS record and its related code. Even without
this record, the timestamp required for commit timestamp feature
can be acquired from the COMMIT record.
Bump WAL page magic.
Reported-by: lx zou <zoulx1982@163.com>
Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16931-620d0f2fdc6108f1@postgresql.org
Introduce a new GUC recovery_prefetch, disabled by default. When
enabled, look ahead in the WAL and try to initiate asynchronous reading
of referenced data blocks that are not yet cached in our buffer pool.
For now, this is done with posix_fadvise(), which has several caveats.
Better mechanisms will follow in later work on the I/O subsystem.
The GUC maintenance_io_concurrency is used to limit the number of
concurrent I/Os we allow ourselves to initiate, based on pessimistic
heuristics used to infer that I/Os have begun and completed.
The GUC wal_decode_buffer_size is used to limit the maximum distance we
are prepared to read ahead in the WAL to find uncached blocks.
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> (parts)
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> (parts)
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com> (parts)
Tested-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>
Tested-by: Jakub Wartak <Jakub.Wartak@tomtom.com>
Tested-by: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Sait Talha Nisanci <Sait.Nisanci@microsoft.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJ4VJN8ttxScUFM8dOKX0BrBiboo5uz1cq%3DAovOddfHpA%40mail.gmail.com
Teach xlogreader.c to decode its output into a circular buffer, to
support optimizations based on looking ahead.
* XLogReadRecord() works as before, consuming records one by one, and
allowing them to be examined via the traditional XLogRecGetXXX()
macros.
* An alternative new interface XLogNextRecord() is added that returns
pointers to DecodedXLogRecord structs that can be examined directly.
* XLogReadAhead() provides a second cursor that lets you see
further ahead, as long as data is available and there is enough space
in the decoding buffer. This returns DecodedXLogRecord pointers to the
caller, but also adds them to a queue of records that will later be
consumed by XLogNextRecord()/XLogReadRecord().
The buffer's size is controlled with wal_decode_buffer_size. The buffer
could potentially be placed into shared memory, for future projects.
Large records that don't fit in the circular buffer are called
"oversized" and allocated separately with palloc().
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJ4VJN8ttxScUFM8dOKX0BrBiboo5uz1cq=AovOddfHpA@mail.gmail.com
Previously, the XLogReader module would fetch new input data using a
callback function. Redesign the interface so that it tells the caller
to insert more data with a special return value instead. This API suits
later patches for prefetching, encryption and maybe other future
projects that would otherwise require continually extending the callback
interface.
As incidental cleanup work, move global variables readOff, readLen and
readSegNo inside XlogReaderState.
Author: Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Author: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> (parts of earlier version)
Reviewed-by: Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Takashi Menjo <takashi.menjo@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190418.210257.43726183.horiguchi.kyotaro%40lab.ntt.co.jp
Retry the call to heap_prune_page() in rare cases where there is
disagreement between the heap_prune_page() call and the call to
HeapTupleSatisfiesVacuum() that immediately follows. Disagreement is
possible when a concurrently-aborted transaction makes a tuple DEAD
during the tiny window between each step. This was the only case where
a tuple considered DEAD by VACUUM still had storage following pruning.
VACUUM's definition of dead tuples is now uniformly simple and
unambiguous: dead tuples from each page are always LP_DEAD line pointers
that were encountered just after we performed pruning (and just before
we considered freezing remaining items with tuple storage).
Eliminating the tupgone=true special case enables INDEX_CLEANUP=off
style skipping of index vacuuming that takes place based on flexible,
dynamic criteria. The INDEX_CLEANUP=off case had to know about skipping
indexes up-front before now, due to a subtle interaction with the
special case (see commit dd695979) -- this was a special case unto
itself. Now there are no special cases. And so now it won't matter
when or how we decide to skip index vacuuming: it won't affect how
pruning behaves, and it won't be affected by any of the implementation
details of pruning or freezing.
Also remove XLOG_HEAP2_CLEANUP_INFO records. These are no longer
necessary because we now rely entirely on heap pruning taking care of
recovery conflicts. There is no longer any need to generate recovery
conflicts for DEAD tuples that pruning just missed. This also means
that heap vacuuming now uses exactly the same strategy for recovery
conflicts as index vacuuming always has: REDO routines never need to
process a latestRemovedXid from the WAL record, since earlier REDO of
the WAL record from pruning is sufficient in all cases. The generic
XLOG_HEAP2_CLEAN record type is now split into two new record types to
reflect this new division (these are called XLOG_HEAP2_PRUNE and
XLOG_HEAP2_VACUUM).
Also stop acquiring a super-exclusive lock for heap pages when they're
vacuumed during VACUUM's second heap pass. A regular exclusive lock is
enough. This is correct because heap page vacuuming is now strictly a
matter of setting the LP_DEAD line pointers to LP_UNUSED. No other
backend can have a pointer to a tuple located in a pinned buffer that
can be invalidated by a concurrent heap page vacuum operation.
Heap vacuuming can now be thought of as conceptually similar to index
vacuuming and conceptually dissimilar to heap pruning. Heap pruning now
has sole responsibility for anything involving the logical contents of
the database (e.g., managing transaction status information, recovery
conflicts, considering what to do with HOT chains). Index vacuuming and
heap vacuuming are now only concerned with recycling garbage items from
physical data structures that back the logical database.
Bump XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC due to pruning and heap page vacuum WAL record
changes.
Credit for the idea of retrying pruning a page to avoid the tupgone case
goes to Andres Freund.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WznneCXTzuFmcwx_EyRQgfsfJAAsu+CsqRFmFXCAar=nJw@mail.gmail.com
Not much to say here: does what it says on the tin.
We steal a previously-always-zero bit from the nextOffset
field of leaf index tuples in order to track whether there
is a nulls bitmap. Otherwise it works about like included
columns in other index types.
Pavel Borisov, reviewed by Andrey Borodin and Anastasia Lubennikova,
and rather heavily editorialized on by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALT9ZEFi-vMp4faht9f9Junb1nO3NOSjhpxTmbm1UGLMsLqiEQ@mail.gmail.com
Reorganize the state struct used by VACUUM -- group related items
together to make it easier to understand. Also stop relying on stack
variables inside lazy_scan_heap() -- move those into the state struct
instead. Doing things this way simplifies large groups of related
functions whose function signatures had a lot of unnecessary redundancy.
Switch over to using int64 for the struct fields used to count things
that are reported to the user via log_autovacuum and VACUUM VERBOSE
output. We were using double, but that doesn't seem to have any
advantages. Using int64 makes it possible to add assertions that verify
that the first pass over the heap (pruning) encounters precisely the
same number of LP_DEAD items that get deleted from indexes later on, in
the second pass over the heap. These assertions will be added in later
commits.
Finally, adjust the signatures of functions with IndexBulkDeleteResult
pointer arguments in cases where there was ambiguity about whether or
not the argument relates to a single index or all indexes. Functions
now use the idiom that both ambulkdelete() and amvacuumcleanup() have
always used (where appropriate): accept a mutable IndexBulkDeleteResult
pointer argument, and return a result IndexBulkDeleteResult pointer to
caller.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkeOSYwC6KNckbhk2b1aNnWum6Yyn0NKP9D-Hq1LGTDPw@mail.gmail.com
According to the documentation, the attType passed to the opclass
config function (and also relied on by the core code) is the type
of the heap column or expression being indexed. But what was
actually being passed was the type stored for the index column.
This made no difference for user-defined SP-GiST opclasses,
because we weren't allowing the STORAGE clause of CREATE OPCLASS
to be used, so the two types would be the same. But it's silly
not to allow that, seeing that the built-in poly_ops opclass
has a different value for opckeytype than opcintype, and that if you
want to do lossy storage then the types must really be different.
(Thus, user-defined opclasses doing lossy storage had to lie about
what type is in the index.) Hence, remove the restriction, and make
sure that we use the input column type not opckeytype where relevant.
For reasons of backwards compatibility with existing user-defined
opclasses, we can't quite insist that the specified leafType match
the STORAGE clause; instead just add an amvalidate() warning if
they don't match.
Also fix some bugs that would only manifest when trying to return
index entries when attType is different from attLeafType. It's not
too surprising that these have not been reported, because the only
usual reason for such a difference is to store the leaf value
lossily, rendering index-only scans impossible.
Add a src/test/modules module to exercise cases where attType is
different from attLeafType and yet index-only scan is supported.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3728741.1617381471@sss.pgh.pa.us
The existing convention in SP-GiST is that any pass-by-value datatype
is stored in Datum representation, i.e. it's of width sizeof(Datum)
even when typlen is less than that. This is okay, or at least it's
too late to change it, for prefix datums and node-label datums in inner
(upper) tuples. But it's problematic for leaf datums, because we'd
prefer those to be stored in Postgres' standard on-disk representation
so that we can easily extend leaf tuples to carry additional "included"
columns.
I believe, however, that we can get away with just up and changing that.
This would be an unacceptable on-disk-format break, but there are two
big mitigating factors:
1. It seems quite unlikely that there are any SP-GiST opclasses out
there that use pass-by-value leaf datatypes. Certainly none of the
ones in core do, nor has codesearch.debian.net heard of any. Given
what SP-GiST is good for, it's hard to conceive of a use-case where
the leaf-level values would be both small and fixed-width. (As an
example, if you wanted to index text values with the leaf level being
just a byte, then every text string would have to be represented
with one level of inner tuple per preceding byte, which would be
horrendously space-inefficient and slow to access. You always want
to use as few inner-tuple levels as possible, leaving as much as
possible in the leaf values.)
2. Even granting that you have such an index, this change only
breaks things on big-endian machines. On little-endian, the high
order bytes of the Datum format will now just appear to be alignment
padding space.
So, change the code to store pass-by-value leaf datums in their
usual on-disk form. Inner-tuple datums are not touched.
This is extracted from a larger patch that intends to add support for
"included" columns. I'm committing it separately for visibility in
our commit logs.
Pavel Borisov and Tom Lane, reviewed by Andrey Borodin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALT9ZEFi-vMp4faht9f9Junb1nO3NOSjhpxTmbm1UGLMsLqiEQ@mail.gmail.com
The design of the data structures which allow storage of the per-worker
memory during parallel seq scans were not ideal. The work done in
56788d215 required an additional data structure to allow workers to
remember the range of pages that had been allocated to them for
processing during a parallel seqscan. That commit added a void pointer
field to TableScanDescData to allow heapam to store the per-worker
allocation information. However putting the field there made very little
sense given that we have AM specific structs for that, e.g.
HeapScanDescData.
Here we remove the void pointer field from TableScanDescData and add a
dedicated field for this purpose to HeapScanDescData.
Previously we also allocated memory for this parallel per-worker data for
all scans, regardless if it was a parallel scan or not. This was just a
wasted allocation for non-parallel scans, so here we make the allocation
conditional on the scan being parallel.
Also, add previously missing pfree() to free the per-worker data in
heap_endscan().
Reported-by: Andres Freund
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210317023101.anvejcfotwka6gaa@alap3.anarazel.de
Adds BRIN opclasses similar to the existing minmax, except that instead
of summarizing the page range into a single [min,max] range, the summary
consists of multiple ranges and/or points, allowing gaps. This allows
more efficient handling of data with poor correlation to physical
location within the table and/or outlier values, for which the regular
minmax opclassed tend to work poorly.
It's possible to specify the number of values kept for each page range,
either as a single point or an interval boundary.
CREATE TABLE t (a int);
CREATE INDEX ON t
USING brin (a int4_minmax_multi_ops(values_per_range=16));
When building the summary, the values are combined into intervals with
the goal to minimize the "covering" (sum of interval lengths), using a
support procedure computing distance between two values.
Bump catversion, due to various catalog changes.
Author: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@postgresql.org>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Sokolov Yura <y.sokolov@postgrespro.ru>
Reviewed-by: John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c1138ead-7668-f0e1-0638-c3be3237e812@2ndquadrant.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5d78b774-7e9c-c94e-12cf-fef51cc89b1a%402ndquadrant.com
Change the default_toast_compression GUC to be an enum rather than
a string. Earlier, uncommitted versions of the patch supported using
CREATE ACCESS METHOD to add new compression methods to a running
system, but that idea was dropped before commit. So, we can simplify
the GUC handling as well, which has the nice side effect of improving
the error messages.
While updating the documentation to reflect the new GUC type, also
move it back to the right place in the list. I moved this while
revising what became commit 24f0e395ac,
but apparently the intended ordering is "alphabetical" rather than
"whatever Robert thinks looks nice."
Rejigger things to avoid having access/toast_compression.h depend on
utils/guc.h, so that we don't end up with every file that includes
it also depending on something largely unrelated. Move a few
inline functions back into the C source file partly to help reduce
dependencies and partly just to avoid clutter. A few very minor
cosmetic fixes.
Original patch by Justin Pryzby, but very heavily edited by me,
and reverse reviewed by him and also reviewed by by Tom Lane.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYp=GT_ztUCeZg2i4hkHAQv8o=-nVJ1-TKWTG1zQOmOpg@mail.gmail.com
To allow inserts in parallel-mode this feature has to ensure that all the
constraints, triggers, etc. are parallel-safe for the partition hierarchy
which is costly and we need to find a better way to do that. Additionally,
we could have used existing cached information in some cases like indexes,
domains, etc. to determine the parallel-safety.
List of commits reverted, in reverse chronological order:
ed62d3737c Doc: Update description for parallel insert reloption.
c8f78b6161 Add a new GUC and a reloption to enable inserts in parallel-mode.
c5be48f092 Improve FK trigger parallel-safety check added by 05c8482f7f.
e2cda3c20a Fix use of relcache TriggerDesc field introduced by commit 05c8482f7f.
e4e87a32cc Fix valgrind issue in commit 05c8482f7f.
05c8482f7f Enable parallel SELECT for "INSERT INTO ... SELECT ...".
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1lMiB9-0001c3-SY@gemulon.postgresql.org
substring(), and perhaps other callers, isn't careful to pass a
slice length that is no more than the datum's true size. Since
toast_decompress_datum_slice's children will palloc the requested
slice length, this can waste memory. Also, close study of the liblz4
documentation suggests that it is dependent on the caller to not ask
for more than the correct amount of decompressed data; this squares
with observed misbehavior with liblz4 1.8.3. Avoid these problems
by switching to the normal full-decompression code path if the
slice request is >= datum's decompressed size.
Tom Lane and Dilip Kumar
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/507597.1616370729@sss.pgh.pa.us
The authors of bbe0a81db hadn't quite got the idea that macros named
like SOMETHING_4B_C were only meant for internal endianness-related
details in postgres.h. Choose more legible names for macros that are
intended to be used elsewhere. Rearrange postgres.h a bit to clarify
the separation between those internal macros and ones intended for
wider use.
Also, avoid using the term "rawsize" for true decompressed size;
we've used "extsize" for that, because "rawsize" generally denotes
total Datum size including header. This choice seemed particularly
unfortunate in tests that were comparing one of these meanings to
the other.
This patch includes a couple of not-purely-cosmetic changes: be
sure that the shifts aligning compression methods are unsigned
(not critical today, but will be when compression method 2 exists),
and fix broken definition of VARATT_EXTERNAL_GET_COMPRESSION (now
VARATT_EXTERNAL_GET_COMPRESS_METHOD), whose callers worked only
accidentally.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/574197.1616428079@sss.pgh.pa.us
Maintain a simple array of metadata about pages that were deleted during
nbtree VACUUM's current btvacuumscan() call. Use this metadata at the
end of btvacuumscan() to attempt to place newly deleted pages in the FSM
without further delay. It might not yet be safe to place any of the
pages in the FSM by then (they may not be deemed recyclable), but we
have little to lose and plenty to gain by trying. In practice there is
a very good chance that this will work out when vacuuming larger
indexes, where scanning the index naturally takes quite a while.
This commit doesn't change the page recycling invariants; it merely
improves the efficiency of page recycling within the confines of the
existing design. Recycle safety is a part of nbtree's implementation of
what Lanin & Shasha call "the drain technique". The design happens to
use transaction IDs (they're stored in deleted pages), but that in
itself doesn't align the cutoff for recycle safety to any of the
XID-based cutoffs used by VACUUM (e.g., OldestXmin). All that matters
is whether or not _other_ backends might be able to observe various
inconsistencies in the tree structure (that they cannot just detect and
recover from by moving right). Recycle safety is purely a question of
maintaining the consistency (or the apparent consistency) of a physical
data structure.
Note that running a simple serial test case involving a large range
DELETE followed by a VACUUM VERBOSE will probably show that any newly
deleted nbtree pages are not yet reusable/recyclable. This is expected
in the absence of even one concurrent XID assignment. It is an old
implementation restriction. In practice it's unlikely to be the thing
that makes recycling remain unsafe, at least with larger indexes, where
recycling newly deleted pages during the same VACUUM actually matters.
An important high-level goal of this commit (as well as related recent
commits e5d8a999 and 9f3665fb) is to make expensive deferred cleanup
operations in index AMs rare in general. If index vacuuming frequently
depends on the next VACUUM operation finishing off work that the current
operation started, then the general behavior of index vacuuming is hard
to predict. This is relevant to ongoing work that adds a vacuumlazy.c
mechanism to skip index vacuuming in certain cases. Anything that makes
the real world behavior of index vacuuming simpler and more linear will
also make top-down modeling in vacuumlazy.c more robust.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wzk76_P=67iUscb1UN44-gyZL-KgpsXbSxq_bdcMa7Q+wQ@mail.gmail.com
Compilers that don't understand that elog(ERROR) doesn't return
issued warnings here. In the cases in libpq_pipeline.c, we were
not exactly helping things by failing to mark pg_fatal() as noreturn.
Per buildfarm.
There is now a per-column COMPRESSION option which can be set to pglz
(the default, and the only option in up until now) or lz4. Or, if you
like, you can set the new default_toast_compression GUC to lz4, and
then that will be the default for new table columns for which no value
is specified. We don't have lz4 support in the PostgreSQL code, so
to use lz4 compression, PostgreSQL must be built --with-lz4.
In general, TOAST compression means compression of individual column
values, not the whole tuple, and those values can either be compressed
inline within the tuple or compressed and then stored externally in
the TOAST table, so those properties also apply to this feature.
Prior to this commit, a TOAST pointer has two unused bits as part of
the va_extsize field, and a compessed datum has two unused bits as
part of the va_rawsize field. These bits are unused because the length
of a varlena is limited to 1GB; we now use them to indicate the
compression type that was used. This means we only have bit space for
2 more built-in compresison types, but we could work around that
problem, if necessary, by introducing a new vartag_external value for
any further types we end up wanting to add. Hopefully, it won't be
too important to offer a wide selection of algorithms here, since
each one we add not only takes more coding but also adds a build
dependency for every packager. Nevertheless, it seems worth doing
at least this much, because LZ4 gets better compression than PGLZ
with less CPU usage.
It's possible for LZ4-compressed datums to leak into composite type
values stored on disk, just as it is for PGLZ. It's also possible for
LZ4-compressed attributes to be copied into a different table via SQL
commands such as CREATE TABLE AS or INSERT .. SELECT. It would be
expensive to force such values to be decompressed, so PostgreSQL has
never done so. For the same reasons, we also don't force recompression
of already-compressed values even if the target table prefers a
different compression method than was used for the source data. These
architectural decisions are perhaps arguable but revisiting them is
well beyond the scope of what seemed possible to do as part of this
project. However, it's relatively cheap to recompress as part of
VACUUM FULL or CLUSTER, so this commit adjusts those commands to do
so, if the configured compression method of the table happens not to
match what was used for some column value stored therein.
Dilip Kumar. The original patches on which this work was based were
written by Ildus Kurbangaliev, and those were patches were based on
even earlier work by Nikita Glukhov, but the design has since changed
very substantially, since allow a potentially large number of
compression methods that could be added and dropped on a running
system proved too problematic given some of the architectural issues
mentioned above; the choice of which specific compression method to
add first is now different; and a lot of the code has been heavily
refactored. More recently, Justin Przyby helped quite a bit with
testing and reviewing and this version also includes some code
contributions from him. Other design input and review from Tomas
Vondra, Álvaro Herrera, Andres Freund, Oleg Bartunov, Alexander
Korotkov, and me.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20170907194236.4cefce96%40wp.localdomain
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAFiTN-uUpX3ck%3DK0mLEk-G_kUQY%3DSNOTeqdaNRR9FMdQrHKebw%40mail.gmail.com
While looking at Robert Foggia's report, I noticed a passel of
other issues in the same area:
* The scheme for backslash-quoting newlines in pathnames is just
wrong; it will misbehave if the last ordinary character in a pathname
is a backslash. I'm not sure why we're bothering to allow newlines
in tablespace paths, but if we're going to do it we should do it
without introducing other problems. Hence, backslashes themselves
have to be backslashed too.
* The author hadn't read the sscanf man page very carefully, because
this code would drop any leading whitespace from the path. (I doubt
that a tablespace path with leading whitespace could happen in
practice; but if we're bothering to allow newlines in the path, it
sure seems like leading whitespace is little less implausible.) Using
sscanf for the task of finding the first space is overkill anyway.
* While I'm not 100% sure what the rationale for escaping both \r and
\n is, if the idea is to allow Windows newlines in the file then this
code failed, because it'd throw an error if it saw \r followed by \n.
* There's no cross-check for an incomplete final line in the map file,
which would be a likely apparent symptom of the improper-escaping
bug.
On the generation end, aside from the escaping issue we have:
* If needtblspcmapfile is true then do_pg_start_backup will pass back
escaped strings in tablespaceinfo->path values, which no caller wants
or is prepared to deal with. I'm not sure if there's a live bug from
that, but it looks like there might be (given the dubious assumption
that anyone actually has newlines in their tablespace paths).
* It's not being very paranoid about the possibility of random stuff
in the pg_tblspc directory. IMO we should ignore anything without an
OID-like name.
The escaping rule change doesn't seem back-patchable: it'll require
doubling of backslashes in the tablespace_map file, which is basically
a basebackup format change. The odds of that causing trouble are
considerably more than the odds of the existing bug causing trouble.
The rest of this seems somewhat unlikely to cause problems too,
so no back-patch.
Simplify _bt_vacuum_needs_cleanup() functions's signature (it only needs
a single 'rel' argument now), and move it next to its sibling function
in nbtpage.c.
I believe that _bt_vacuum_needs_cleanup() was originally located in
nbtree.c due to an include dependency issue. That's no longer an issue.
Follow-up to commit 9f3665fb.
Commit 9f3665fb removed the vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor storage
parameter. However, that creates dump/reload hazards when moving across
major versions.
Add back the vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor parameter (though not the
GUC of the same name) purely to avoid problems when using tools like
pg_upgrade. The parameter remains disabled and undocumented.
No backpatch to Postgres 13, since vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor was
only disabled by REL_13_STABLE's version of master branch commit
9f3665fb in the first place -- the parameter already looks like this on
REL_13_STABLE.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YEm/a3Ko3nKnBuVq@paquier.xyz
Previously, the code and documentation seem to have essentially
assumed than a call to pg_wal_replay_pause() would take place
immediately, but that's not the case, because we only check for a
pause in certain places. This means that a tool that uses this
function and then wants to do something else afterward that is
dependent on the pause having taken effect doesn't know how long it
needs to wait to be sure that no more WAL is going to be replayed.
To avoid that, add a new function pg_get_wal_replay_pause_state()
which returns either 'not paused', 'paused requested', or 'paused'.
After calling pg_wal_replay_pause() the status will immediate change
from 'not paused' to 'pause requested'; when the startup process
has noticed this, the status will change to 'pause'. For backward
compatibility, pg_is_wal_replay_paused() still exists and returns
the same thing as before: true if a pause has been requested,
whether or not it has taken effect yet; and false if not.
The documentation is updated to clarify.
To improve the changes that a pause request is quickly confirmed
effective, adjust things so that WaitForWALToBecomeAvailable will
swiftly reach a call to recoveryPausesHere() when a pause request
is made.
Dilip Kumar, reviewed by Simon Riggs, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Yugo Nagata,
Masahiko Sawada, and Bharath Rupireddy.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAFiTN-vcLLWEm8Zr%3DYK83rgYrT9pbC8VJCfa1kY9vL3AUPfu6g%40mail.gmail.com
Remove the entire idea of "stale stats" within nbtree VACUUM (stop
caring about stats involving the number of inserted tuples). Also
remove the vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor GUC/param on the master
branch (though just disable them on postgres 13).
The vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor/stats interface made the nbtree AM
partially responsible for deciding when pg_class.reltuples stats needed
to be updated. This seems contrary to the spirit of the index AM API,
though -- it is not actually necessary for an index AM's bulk delete and
cleanup callbacks to provide accurate stats when it happens to be
inconvenient. The core code owns that. (Index AMs have the authority
to perform or not perform certain kinds of deferred cleanup based on
their own considerations, such as page deletion and recycling, but that
has little to do with pg_class.reltuples/num_index_tuples.)
This issue was fairly harmless until the introduction of the
autovacuum_vacuum_insert_threshold feature by commit b07642db, which had
an undesirable interaction with the vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor
mechanism: it made insert-driven autovacuums perform full index scans,
even though there is no real benefit to doing so. This has been tied to
a regression with an append-only insert benchmark [1].
Also have remaining cases that perform a full scan of an index during a
cleanup-only nbtree VACUUM indicate that the final tuple count is only
an estimate. This prevents vacuumlazy.c from setting the index's
pg_class.reltuples in those cases (it will now only update pg_class when
vacuumlazy.c had TIDs for nbtree to bulk delete). This arguably fixes
an oversight in deduplication-related bugfix commit 48e12913.
[1] https://smalldatum.blogspot.com/2021/01/insert-benchmark-postgres-is-still.html
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoA4WHthN5uU6+WScZ7+J_RcEjmcuH94qcoUPuB42ShXzg@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 13-, where autovacuum_vacuum_insert_threshold was added.
Parallel SELECT can't be utilized for INSERT in the following cases:
- INSERT statement uses the ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE clause
- Target table has a parallel-unsafe: trigger, index expression or
predicate, column default expression or check constraint
- Target table has a parallel-unsafe domain constraint on any column
- Target table is a partitioned table with a parallel-unsafe partition key
expression or support function
The planner is updated to perform additional parallel-safety checks for
the cases listed above, for determining whether it is safe to run INSERT
in parallel-mode with an underlying parallel SELECT. The planner will
consider using parallel SELECT for "INSERT INTO ... SELECT ...", provided
nothing unsafe is found from the additional parallel-safety checks, or
from the existing parallel-safety checks for SELECT.
While checking parallel-safety, we need to check it for all the partitions
on the table which can be costly especially when we decide not to use a
parallel plan. So, in a separate patch, we will introduce a GUC and or a
reloption to enable/disable parallelism for Insert statements.
Prior to entering parallel-mode for the execution of INSERT with parallel
SELECT, a TransactionId is acquired and assigned to the current
transaction state. This is necessary to prevent the INSERT from attempting
to assign the TransactionId whilst in parallel-mode, which is not allowed.
This approach has a disadvantage in that if the underlying SELECT does not
return any rows, then the TransactionId is not used, however that
shouldn't happen in practice in many cases.
Author: Greg Nancarrow, Amit Langote, Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Amit Langote, Hou Zhijie, Takayuki Tsunakawa, Antonin Houska, Bharath Rupireddy, Dilip Kumar, Vignesh C, Zhihong Yu, Amit Kapila
Tested-by: Tang, Haiying
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJcOf-cXnB5cnMKqWEp2E2z7Mvcd04iLVmV=qpFJrR3AcrTS3g@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJcOf-fAdj=nDKMsRhQzndm-O13NY4dL6xGcEvdX5Xvbbi0V7g@mail.gmail.com
