done by the background writer between writing dirty blocks and
napping.
none (default) no action
sync bgwriter calls smgrsync() causing a sync(2)
A global sync() is only good on dedicated database servers, so
more flush methods should be added in the future.
Jan
pointer type when it is not necessary to do so.
For future reference, casting NULL to a pointer type is only necessary
when (a) invoking a function AND either (b) the function has no prototype
OR (c) the function is a varargs function.
- Update comment in IsReservedName() to the present day
- Improve some variable & function names in commands/vacuum.c. I
was planning to rewrite this to avoid lappend(), but since I
still intend to do the list rewrite, there's no need for that.
- Update some smgr comments which seemed to imply that we still
forced all dirty pages to disk at commit-time.
- Replace some #ifdef DIAGNOSTIC code with assertions.
- Make the distinction between OS-level file descriptors and
virtual file descriptors a little clearer in a few comments
- Other minor comment improvements in the smgr code
call. You'd think this would cause some problems, but because of the
way hash_create is coded, the only side-effect was creation of a useless
memory context for the hashtable.
instruction in the s_lock() wait loop, and use test before test-and-set
in TAS() macro to avoid unnecessary bus traffic. Patch from Manfred
Spraul, reworked a bit by Tom.
that were broken, try to make layout of s_lock.h entries consistent,
use HAVE_SPINLOCKS in preference to HAS_TEST_AND_SET everywhere outside
s_lock.h itself.
commit, but I am adding it now so it is in CVS.]
The patch basically is a slight rearrangement of the code to allow
fork/exec on Unix, with the ultimate goal of doing CreateProcess on
Win32. The changes are:
o Write out postmaster global variables and per-backend
variables to be read by the exec'ed backend
o Mark some static variables as global when exec is used so
then can be dumped from postmaster.c, marked NON_EXEC_STATIC
o Remove value passing with -p now that we have per-backend
file
o Move some pointer storage out of shared memory for easier
dumping.
o Modified pgsql_temp directory cleanup to handle per-database
directories and the backend exec directory under datadir.
Claudio Natoli
some concurrent changes Jan was making to the bufmgr. Here's an
updated version of the patch -- it should apply cleanly to CVS
HEAD and passes the regression tests.
This patch makes the following changes:
- remove the UnlockAndReleaseBuffer() and UnlockAndWriteBuffer()
macros, and replace uses of them with calls to the appropriate
functions.
- remove a bunch of #ifdef BMTRACE code: it is ugly & broken
(i.e. it doesn't compile)
- make BufferReplace() return a bool, not an int
- cleanup some logic in bufmgr.c; should be functionality
equivalent to the previous code, just cleaner now
- remove the BM_PRIVATE flag as it is unused
- improve a few comments, etc.
method control structure, or a table of control structures.
. Use type LOCKMASK where an int is not a counter.
. Get rid of INVALID_TABLEID, use INVALID_LOCKMETHOD instead.
. Use INVALID_LOCKMETHOD instead of (LOCKMETHOD) NULL, because
LOCKMETHOD is not a pointer.
. Define and use macro LockMethodIsValid.
. Rename LOCKMETHOD to LOCKMETHODID.
. Remove global variable LongTermTableId in lmgr.c, because it is
never used.
. Make LockTableId static in lmgr.c, because it is used nowhere else.
Why not remove it and use DEFAULT_LOCKMETHOD?
. Rename the lock method control structure from LOCKMETHODTABLE to
LockMethodData. Introduce a pointer type named LockMethod.
. Remove elog(FATAL) after InitLockTable() call in
CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(), because if something goes wrong,
there is elog(FATAL) in LockMethodTableInit(), and if this doesn't
help, an elog(ERROR) in InitLockTable() is promoted to FATAL.
. Make InitLockTable() void, because its only caller does not use its
return value any more.
. Rename variables in lock.c to avoid statements like
LockMethodTable[NumLockMethods] = lockMethodTable;
lockMethodTable = LockMethodTable[lockmethod];
. Change LOCKMETHODID type to uint16 to fit into struct LOCKTAG.
. Remove static variables BITS_OFF and BITS_ON from lock.c, because
I agree to this doubt:
* XXX is a fetch from a static array really faster than a shift?
. Define and use macros LOCKBIT_ON/OFF.
Manfred Koizar
Ward's report that it can still happen in RC2 forces me to realize that
this is not a can't-happen condition after all, and that the compaction
code had better cope rather than panicking.
large objects. Dump all these in pg_dump; also add code to pg_dump
user-defined conversions. Make psql's large object code rely on
the backend for inserting/deleting LOB comments, instead of trying to
hack pg_description directly. Documentation and regression tests added.
Christopher Kings-Lynne, code reviewed by Tom
This first part of the background writer does no syncing at all.
It's only purpose is to keep the LRU heads clean so that regular
backends seldom to never have to call write().
Jan
pghackers proposal of 8-Nov. All the existing cross-type comparison
operators (int2/int4/int8 and float4/float8) have appropriate support.
The original proposal of storing the right-hand-side datatype as part of
the primary key for pg_amop and pg_amproc got modified a bit in the event;
it is easier to store zero as the 'default' case and only store a nonzero
when the operator is actually cross-type. Along the way, remove the
long-since-defunct bigbox_ops operator class.
Remove the 'strategy map' code, which was a large amount of mechanism
that no longer had any use except reverse-mapping from procedure OID to
strategy number. Passing the strategy number to the index AM in the
first place is simpler and faster.
This is a preliminary step in planned support for cross-datatype index
operations. I'm committing it now since the ScanKeyEntryInitialize()
API change touches quite a lot of files, and I want to commit those
changes before the tree drifts under me.
memory say 'out of shared memory'; some were doing that and some just
said 'out of memory'. Also add a HINT about increasing max_locks_per_transaction
where relevant, per suggestion from Sean Chittenden. (The former change
does not break the strings freeze; the latter does, but I think it's
worth doing anyway.)
discussion on pgsql-hackers: in READ COMMITTED mode we just have to force
a QuerySnapshot update in the trigger, but in SERIALIZABLE mode we have
to run the scan under a current snapshot and then complain if any rows
would be updated/deleted that are not visible in the transaction snapshot.
now able to cope with assigning new relfilenode values to nailed-in-cache
indexes, so they can be reindexed using the fully crash-safe method. This
leaves only shared system indexes as special cases. Remove the 'index
deactivation' code, since it provides no useful protection in the shared-
index case. Require reindexing of shared indexes to be done in standalone
mode, but remove other restrictions on REINDEX. -P (IgnoreSystemIndexes)
now prevents using indexes for lookups, but does not disable index updates.
It is therefore safe to allow from PGOPTIONS. Upshot: reindexing system catalogs
can be done without a standalone backend for all cases except
shared catalogs.
not just MAXALIGN boundaries. This makes a noticeable difference in
the speed of transfers to and from kernel space, at least on recent
Pentiums, and might help other CPUs too. We should look at making
this happen for local buffers and buffile.c too. Patch from Manfred Spraul.
pghackers. This fixes the problem recently reported by Markus KrÌutner
(hash bucket split corrupts the state of scans being done concurrently),
and I believe it also fixes all the known problems with deadlocks in
hash index operations. Hash indexes are still not really ready for prime
time (since they aren't WAL-logged), but this is a step forward.
