Previously, backend ID was an index into the ProcState array, in the
shared cache invalidation manager (sinvaladt.c). The entry in the
ProcState array was reserved at backend startup by scanning the array
for a free entry, and that was also when the backend got its backend
ID. Things become slightly simpler if we redefine backend ID to be the
index into the PGPROC array, and directly use it also as an index to
the ProcState array. This uses a little more memory, as we reserve a
few extra slots in the ProcState array for aux processes that don't
need them, but the simplicity is worth it.
Aux processes now also have a backend ID. This simplifies the
reservation of BackendStatusArray and ProcSignal slots.
You can now convert a backend ID into an index into the PGPROC array
simply by subtracting 1. We still use 0-based "pgprocnos" in various
places, for indexes into the PGPROC array, but the only difference now
is that backend IDs start at 1 while pgprocnos start at 0. (The next
commmit will get rid of the term "backend ID" altogether and make
everything 0-based.)
There is still a 'backendId' field in PGPROC, now part of 'vxid' which
encapsulates the backend ID and local transaction ID together. It's
needed for prepared xacts. For regular backends, the backendId is
always equal to pgprocno + 1, but for prepared xact PGPROC entries,
it's the ID of the original backend that processed the transaction.
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Reid Thompson
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/8171f1aa-496f-46a6-afc3-c46fe7a9b407@iki.fi
More precisely, what we do here is make the SLRU cache sizes
configurable with new GUCs, so that sites with high concurrency and big
ranges of transactions in flight (resp. multixacts/subtransactions) can
benefit from bigger caches. In order for this to work with good
performance, two additional changes are made:
1. the cache is divided in "banks" (to borrow terminology from CPU
caches), and algorithms such as eviction buffer search only affect
one specific bank. This forestalls the problem that linear searching
for a specific buffer across the whole cache takes too long: we only
have to search the specific bank, whose size is small. This work is
authored by Andrey Borodin.
2. Change the locking regime for the SLRU banks, so that each bank uses
a separate LWLock. This allows for increased scalability. This work
is authored by Dilip Kumar. (A part of this was previously committed as
d172b717c6f4.)
Special care is taken so that the algorithms that can potentially
traverse more than one bank release one bank's lock before acquiring the
next. This should happen rarely, but particularly clog.c's group commit
feature needed code adjustment to cope with this. I (Álvaro) also added
lots of comments to make sure the design is sound.
The new GUCs match the names introduced by bcdfa5f2e2 in the
pg_stat_slru view.
The default values for these parameters are similar to the previous
sizes of each SLRU. commit_ts, clog and subtrans accept value 0, which
means to adjust by dividing shared_buffers by 512 (so 2MB for every 1GB
of shared_buffers), with a cap of 8MB. (A new slru.c function
SimpleLruAutotuneBuffers() was added to support this.) The cap was
previously 1MB for clog, so for sites with more than 512MB of shared
memory the total memory used increases, which is likely a good tradeoff.
However, other SLRUs (notably multixact ones) retain smaller sizes and
don't support a configured value of 0. These values based on
shared_buffers may need to be revisited, but that's an easy change.
There was some resistance to adding these new GUCs: it would be better
to adjust to memory pressure automatically somehow, for example by
stealing memory from shared_buffers (where the caches can grow and
shrink naturally). However, doing that seems to be a much larger
project and one which has made virtually no progress in several years,
and because this is such a pain point for so many users, here we take
the pragmatic approach.
Author: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>
Author: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Amul Sul, Gilles Darold, Anastasia Lubennikova,
Ivan Lazarev, Robert Haas, Thomas Munro, Tomas Vondra,
Yura Sokolov, Васильев Дмитрий (Dmitry Vasiliev).
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2BEC2B3F-9B61-4C1D-9FB5-5FAB0F05EF86@yandex-team.ru
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFiTN-vzDvNz=ExGXz6gdyjtzGixKSqs0mKHMmaQ8sOSEFZ33A@mail.gmail.com
The new names are intended to match those in an upcoming patch that adds
a few GUCs to configure the SLRU buffer sizes.
Backwards compatibility concern: this changes the accepted names for
function pg_stat_slru_rest(). Since this function recognizes "any other
string" as a request to reset the entry for "other", this means that
calling it with the old names would silently reset "other" instead of
doing nothing or throwing an error.
Reviewed-by: Andrey M. Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202402261616.dlriae7b6emv@alvherre.pgsql
Similarly to tables and indexes, these functions are able to open
relations with a sequence relkind, which is useful to make a distinction
with the other relation kinds. Previously, commands/sequence.c used a
mix of table_{close,open}() and relation_{close,open}() routines when
manipulating sequence relations, so this clarifies the code.
A direct effect of this change is to align the error messages produced
when attempting DDLs for sequences on relations with an unexpected
relkind, like a table or an index with ALTER SEQUENCE, providing an
extra error detail about the relkind of the relation used in the DDL
query.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZWlohtKAs0uVVpZ3@paquier.xyz
When this assertion was installed (in commit d2f60a3ab), I thought
it was only for catching server logic errors that caused accesses to
catalogs that were undergoing index rebuilds. However, it will also
fire in case of a user-defined index expression that attempts to
access its own table. We occasionally see reports of people trying
to do that, and typically getting unintelligible low-level errors
as a result. We can provide a more on-point message by making this
a regular runtime check.
While at it, adjust the similar error check in
systable_beginscan_ordered to use the same message text. That one
is (probably) not reachable without a coding bug, but we might as
well use a translatable message if we have one.
Per bug #18363 from Alexander Lakhin. Back-patch to all supported
branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18363-e3598a5a572d0699@postgresql.org
The new facility makes it easier to optimize bulk loading, as the
logic for buffering, WAL-logging, and syncing the relation only needs
to be implemented once. It's also less error-prone: We have had a
number of bugs in how a relation is fsync'd - or not - at the end of a
bulk loading operation. By centralizing that logic to one place, we
only need to write it correctly once.
The new facility is faster for small relations: Instead of of calling
smgrimmedsync(), we register the fsync to happen at next checkpoint,
which avoids the fsync latency. That can make a big difference if you
are e.g. restoring a schema-only dump with lots of relations.
It is also slightly more efficient with large relations, as the WAL
logging is performed multiple pages at a time. That avoids some WAL
header overhead. The sorted GiST index build did that already, this
moves the buffering to the new facility.
The changes to pageinspect GiST test needs an explanation: Before this
patch, the sorted GiST index build set the LSN on every page to the
special GistBuildLSN value, not the LSN of the WAL record, even though
they were WAL-logged. There was no particular need for it, it just
happened naturally when we wrote out the pages before WAL-logging
them. Now we WAL-log the pages first, like in B-tree build, so the
pages are stamped with the record's real LSN. When the build is not
WAL-logged, we still use GistBuildLSN. To make the test output
predictable, use an unlogged index.
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/30e8f366-58b3-b239-c521-422122dd5150%40iki.fi
By enabling slot synchronization, all the failover logical replication
slots on the primary (assuming configurations are appropriate) are
automatically created on the physical standbys and are synced
periodically. The slot sync worker on the standby server pings the primary
server at regular intervals to get the necessary failover logical slots
information and create/update the slots locally. The slots that no longer
require synchronization are automatically dropped by the worker.
The nap time of the worker is tuned according to the activity on the
primary. The slot sync worker waits for some time before the next
synchronization, with the duration varying based on whether any slots were
updated during the last cycle.
A new parameter sync_replication_slots enables or disables this new
process.
On promotion, the slot sync worker is shut down by the startup process to
drop any temporary slots acquired by the slot sync worker and to prevent
the worker from trying to fetch the failover slots.
A functionality to allow logical walsenders to wait for the physical will
be done in a subsequent commit.
Author: Shveta Malik, Hou Zhijie based on design inputs by Masahiko Sawada and Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada, Bertrand Drouvot, Peter Smith, Dilip Kumar, Ajin Cherian, Nisha Moond, Kuroda Hayato, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/514f6f2f-6833-4539-39f1-96cd1e011f23@enterprisedb.com
Commit 6b80394781 introduced integer comparison functions designed
to be as efficient as possible while avoiding overflow. This
commit makes use of these functions in many of the in-tree qsort()
comparators to help ensure transitivity. Many of these comparator
functions should also see a small performance boost.
Author: Mats Kindahl
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Fabrízio de Royes Mello
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2B14426g2Wa9QuUpmakwPxXFWG_1FaY0AsApkvcTBy-YfS6uaw%40mail.gmail.com
Previously, some callers requested XLOG_BLCKSZ bytes
unconditionally. While this did not cause a problem, because the extra
bytes are ignored, it's confusing and makes it harder to add safety
checks. Additionally, the comment about zero padding was incorrect.
With this commit, all callers request the number of bytes they
actually need.
Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACWBRFac2TingD3PE3w2EBHXUHY3=AEEZPJmqhpEOBGExg@mail.gmail.com
Don't deal with transaction timeout in PostgresMain(). Instead, release
transaction timeout activated by StartTransaction() in
CommitTransaction()/AbortTransaction()/PrepareTransaction(). Deal with both
enabling and disabling transaction timeout in assign_transaction_timeout().
Also, remove potentially flaky timeouts-long isolation test, which has no
guarantees to pass on slow/busy machines.
Reported-by: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20240215230856.pc6k57tqxt7fhldm%40awork3.anarazel.de
If available, read directly from WAL buffers, avoiding the need to go
through the filesystem. Only for physical replication for now, but can
be expanded to other callers.
In preparation for replicating unflushed WAL data.
Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACXKKK%3DwbiG5_t6dGao5GoecMwRkhr7GjVBM_jg54%2BNa%3DQ%40mail.gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Alvaro Herrera, Nathan Bossart, Dilip Kumar, Nitin Jadhav, Melih Mutlu, Kyotaro Horiguchi
Commit 861f86beea used REGBUF_NO_CHANGE at one of the places in the hash
index to register the clean buffers but forgot to avoid setting LSN in
that case.
Reported-by: Michael Paquier
Author: Kuroda Hayato
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZbyVVG_7eW3YD5-A@paquier.xyz
After calling smgropen(), it was not clear how long you could continue
to use the result, because various code paths including cache
invalidation could call smgrclose(), which freed the memory.
Guarantee that the object won't be destroyed until the end of the
current transaction, or in recovery, the commit/abort record that
destroys the underlying storage.
smgrclose() is now just an alias for smgrrelease(). It closes files
and forgets all state except the rlocator, but keeps the SMgrRelation
object valid.
A new smgrdestroy() function is used by rare places that know there
should be no other references to the SMgrRelation.
The short version:
* smgrclose() is now just an alias for smgrrelease(). It releases
resources, but doesn't destroy until EOX
* smgrdestroy() now frees memory, and should rarely be used.
Existing code should be unaffected, but it is now possible for code that
has an SMgrRelation object to use it repeatedly during a transaction as
long as the storage hasn't been physically dropped. Such code would
normally hold a lock on the relation.
This also replaces the "ownership" mechanism of SMgrRelations with a
pin counter. An SMgrRelation can now be "pinned", which prevents it
from being destroyed at end of transaction. There can be multiple pins
on the same SMgrRelation. In practice, the pin mechanism is only used
by the relcache, so there cannot be more than one pin on the same
SMgrRelation. Except with swap_relation_files XXX
Author: Thomas Munro, Heikki Linnakangas
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA%2BhUKGJ8NTvqLHz6dqbQnt2c8XCki4r2QvXjBQcXpVwxTY_pvA@mail.gmail.com
ginFinishSplit() expects the caller to hold an exclusive lock on the
buffer, but when finishing an earlier "leftover" incomplete split of
an internal page, the caller held a shared lock. That caused an
assertion failure in MarkBufferDirty(). Without assertions, it could
lead to corruption if two backends tried to complete the split at the
same time.
On master, add a test case using the new injection point facility.
Report and analysis by Fei Changhong. Backpatch the fix to all
supported versions.
Reviewed-by: Fei Changhong, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/tencent_A3CE810F59132D8E230475A5F0F7A08C8307@qq.com
lazy_scan_prune() and lazy_scan_noprune() update the freespace map
with identical conditions; combine them. This consolidation is easier
now that cb970240f1 moved visibility map
updates into lazy_scan_prune().
While combining the FSM updates, simplify the logic for calling
lazy_scan_new_or_empty() and lazy_scan_noprune().
Also update a few comemnts in this part of the code to make them,
hopefully, clearer.
Melanie Plageman and Robert Haas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BTgmoaLTvipm%3Dxx4rJLr07m908PCu%3DQH3uCjD1UOn8YaEuO2g%40mail.gmail.com
Three LOG messages are added in the recovery code paths, providing
information that can be useful to track corruption issues depending on
the state of the cluster, telling that:
- Recovery has started from a backup_label.
- Recovery is restarting from a backup start LSN, without a
backup_label.
- Recovery has completed from a backup.
Author: Andres Freund
Reviewed-by: David Steele, Laurenz Albe, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20231117041811.vz4vgkthwjnwp2pp@awork3.anarazel.de
This is support function 12 for the GiST AM and translates
"well-known" RT*StrategyNumber values into whatever strategy number is
used by the opclass (since no particular numbers are actually
required). We will use this to support temporal PRIMARY
KEY/UNIQUE/FOREIGN KEY/FOR PORTION OF functionality.
This commit adds two implementations, one for internal GiST opclasses
(just an identity function) and another for btree_gist opclasses. It
updates btree_gist from 1.7 to 1.8, adding the support function for
all its opclasses.
Author: Paul A. Jungwirth <pj@illuminatedcomputing.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Reviewed-by: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CA+renyUApHgSZF9-nd-a0+OPGharLQLO=mDHcY4_qQ0+noCUVg@mail.gmail.com
Commit cb970240f1 moved some code from
lazy_scan_heap() to lazy_scan_prune(), and now some things that used to
need to be passed back and forth are completely local to lazy_scan_prune().
Hence, this struct is mostly obsolete. The only thing that still
needs to be passed back to the caller is has_lpdead_items, and that's
also passed back by lazy_scan_noprune(), so do it the same way in both
cases.
Melanie Plageman, reviewed and slightly revised by me.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_aM=OL85AOr-80wBsCr=vLVzhnaavqkVPRkFBtD0zsuLQ@mail.gmail.com
Most of the output parameters of lazy_scan_prune() were being
used to update the VM in lazy_scan_heap(). Moving that code into
lazy_scan_prune() simplifies lazy_scan_heap() and requires less
communication between the two.
This change permits some further code simplification, but that
is left for a separate commit.
Melanie Plageman, reviewed by me.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_aM=OL85AOr-80wBsCr=vLVzhnaavqkVPRkFBtD0zsuLQ@mail.gmail.com
If there are no indexes on a relation, items can be marked LP_UNUSED
instead of LP_DEAD when pruning. This significantly reduces WAL
volume, since we no longer need to emit one WAL record for pruning
and a second to change the LP_DEAD line pointers thus created to
LP_UNUSED.
Melanie Plageman, reviewed by Andres Freund, Peter Geoghegan, and me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_bgvb_k0gKOXWzNKWHt560R0smrGe3E8zewKPs8fiMKkw%40mail.gmail.com
try_index_open() is able to open an index if its relkind fits, except
that it would return NULL instead of generated an error if the relation
does not exist. This new routine will be used by an upcoming patch to
make REINDEX on partitioned relations more robust when an index in a
partition tree is dropped.
Extracted from a larger patch by the same author.
Author: Fei Changhong
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/tencent_6A52106095ACDE55333E3AD33F304C0C3909@qq.com
Backpatch-through: 14
Previously, when lazy_scan_noprune() was called and returned true, we would
update the FSM immediately if the relation had no indexes or if the page
contained no dead items. On the other hand, when lazy_scan_prune() was
called, we would update the FSM if either of those things was true or
if index vacuuming was disabled. Eliminate that behavioral difference by
considering vacrel->do_index_vacuuming in both cases.
Also, make lazy_scan_heap() responsible for deciding whether to update
the FSM, instead of doing it inside lazy_scan_noprune(). This is
more consistent with the lazy_scan_prune() case. lazy_scan_noprune()
still needs an output parameter for whether there are LP_DEAD items
on the page, but the real decision-making now happens in the caller.
Patch by me, reviewed by Peter Geoghegan and Melanie Plageman.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoaOzvN1TcHd9iej=PR3fY40En1USxzOnXSR2CxCLaRM0g@mail.gmail.com
This changes the pg_attribute field attstattarget into a nullable
field in the variable-length part of the row. If no value is set by
the user for attstattarget, it is now null instead of previously -1.
This saves space in pg_attribute and tuple descriptors for most
practical scenarios. (ATTRIBUTE_FIXED_PART_SIZE is reduced from 108
to 104.) Also, null is the semantically more correct value.
The ANALYZE code internally continues to represent the default
statistics target by -1, so that that code can avoid having to deal
with null values. But that is now contained to the ANALYZE code.
Only the DDL code deals with attstattarget possibly null.
For system columns, the field is now always null. The ANALYZE code
skips system columns anyway.
To set a column's statistics target to the default value, the new
command form ALTER TABLE ... SET STATISTICS DEFAULT can be used. (SET
STATISTICS -1 still works.)
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/4da8d211-d54d-44b9-9847-f2a9f1184c76@eisentraut.org
Instead, just have lazy_scan_prune() and lazy_scan_noprune() update
LVRelState->nonempty_pages directly. This makes the two functions
more similar and also removes makes lazy_scan_noprune need one fewer
output parameters.
Melanie Plageman, reviewed by Andres Freund, Michael Paquier, and me
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_btji_wQdg=ok-5E4v_bGVxKYnnFFe7RA6Frc1EcOwtSg@mail.gmail.com
The brinbuildCallbackParallel callback used by parallel BRIN builds did
not consider that the parallel table scans may be synchronized, starting
from an arbitrary block and then wrap around.
If this happened and the scan actually did wrap around, tuples from the
beginning of the table were added to the last range produced by the same
worker. The index would be missing range at the beginning of the table,
while the last range would be too wide. This would not produce incorrect
query results, but it'd be less efficient.
Fixed by checking for both past and future ranges in the callback. The
worker may produce multiple summaries for the same page range, but the
leader will merge them as if the summaries came from different workers.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c2ee7d69-ce17-43f2-d1a0-9811edbda6e6%40enterprisedb.com
Commit b437571714 added support for parallel builds for BRIN indexes,
using code similar to BTREE parallel builds, and also a new tuplesort
variant. This commit simplifies the new code in two ways:
* The "spool" grouping tuplesort and the heap/index is not necessary.
The heap/index are available as separate arguments, causing confusion.
So remove the spool, and use the tuplesort directly.
* The new tuplesort variant does not need the heap/index, as it sorts
simply by the range block number, without accessing the tuple data.
So simplify that too.
Initial report and patch by Ranier Vilela, further cleanup by me.
Author: Ranier Vilela
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEudQAqD7f2i4iyEaAz-5o-bf6zXVX-AkNUBm-YjUXEemaEh6A%40mail.gmail.com
Recently-introduced code in reconstruct.c was using "unsigned"
to store the result of read(), pg_pread(), or write(). This is
completely bogus: it breaks subsequent tests for the result being
negative, as we're being reminded of by a chorus of buildfarm
warnings. Switch to "int" as was doubtless intended. (There are
several other uses of "unsigned" in this file that also look poorly
chosen to me, but for now I'm just trying to clean up the buildfarm.)
A larger problem is that "int" is not necessarily wide enough to hold
the result: per POSIX, all these functions return ssize_t. In places
where the requested read or write length clearly fits in int, that's
academic. It may be academic anyway as long as we constrain
individual data files to 1GB, since even a readv or writev-like
operation would then not be responsible for transferring more than
1GB. Nonetheless it seems like trouble waiting to happen, so I made
a pass over readv and writev calls and fixed the result variables
where that seemed appropriate. We might want to think about changing
some of the fd.c functions to return ssize_t too, for future-proofing;
but I didn't tackle that here.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1672202.1703441340@sss.pgh.pa.us
e0b1ee17dc introduced optimization for matching B-tree scan keys required for
the directional scan. However, it incorrectly assumed that all keys required
for opposite direction scan are satisfied by _bt_first(). It has been
illustrated that with multiple scan keys over the same column, a lesser one
(according to the scan direction) could win leaving the other one unsatisfied.
Instead of relying on _bt_first() this commit introduces code that memorizes
whether there was at least one match on the page. If that's true we know that
keys required for opposite-direction scan are satisfied as soon as
corresponding values are not NULLs.
Also, this commit simplifies the description for the optimization of keys
required for the current direction scan. Now the flag used for this is named
continuescanPrechecked and means exactly that *continuescan flag is known
to be true for the last item on the page.
Reported-by: Peter Geoghegan
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wzn0LeLcb1PdBnK0xisz8NpHkxRrMr3NWJ%2BKOK-WZ%2BQtTQ%40mail.gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Pavel Borisov
It's not necessary to keep the firstPage flag as a field of BTScanOpaqueData.
This commit makes it an argument of the _bt_readpage() function. We can easily
distinguish first-time and repeated calls (within the scan) of this function.
Reported-by: Peter Geoghegan
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wzk4SOsw%2BtHuTFiz8U9Jqj-R77rYPkhWKODCBb1mdHACXA%40mail.gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Pavel Borisov
This is necessary when spgcanreturn() is invoked on a partitioned
index, and the failure might be reachable in other scenarios as
well. The rest of what spgGetCache() does is perfectly sensible
for a partitioned index, so we should allow it to go through.
I think the main takeaway from this is that we lack sufficient test
coverage for non-btree partitioned indexes. Therefore, I added
simple test cases for brin and gin as well as spgist (hash and
gist AMs were covered already in indexing.sql).
Per bug #18256 from Alexander Lakhin. Although the known test case
only fails since v16 (3c569049b), I've got no faith at all that there
aren't other ways to reach this problem; so back-patch to all
supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18256-0b0e1b6e4a620f1b@postgresql.org
Commit 6af179395 added isCatalogRel field to some WAL record types,
but this field was not shown in the rmgr descriptions. This commit
changes the several rmgr descriptions to display the isCatalogRel
field.
Author: Bertrand Drouvot
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/957dc8f9-2a02-4640-9c01-9dcbf97c4187%40gmail.com
To take an incremental backup, you use the new replication command
UPLOAD_MANIFEST to upload the manifest for the prior backup. This
prior backup could either be a full backup or another incremental
backup. You then use BASE_BACKUP with the INCREMENTAL option to take
the backup. pg_basebackup now has an --incremental=PATH_TO_MANIFEST
option to trigger this behavior.
An incremental backup is like a regular full backup except that
some relation files are replaced with files with names like
INCREMENTAL.${ORIGINAL_NAME}, and the backup_label file contains
additional lines identifying it as an incremental backup. The new
pg_combinebackup tool can be used to reconstruct a data directory
from a full backup and a series of incremental backups.
Patch by me. Reviewed by Matthias van de Meent, Dilip Kumar, Jakub
Wartak, Peter Eisentraut, and Álvaro Herrera. Thanks especially to
Jakub for incredibly helpful and extensive testing.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYOYZfMCyOXFyC-P+-mdrZqm5pP2N7S-r0z3_402h9rsA@mail.gmail.com
When active, this process writes WAL summary files to
$PGDATA/pg_wal/summaries. Each summary file contains information for a
certain range of LSNs on a certain TLI. For each relation, it stores a
"limit block" which is 0 if a relation is created or destroyed within
a certain range of WAL records, or otherwise the shortest length to
which the relation was truncated during that range of WAL records, or
otherwise InvalidBlockNumber. In addition, it stores a list of blocks
which have been modified during that range of WAL records, but
excluding blocks which were removed by truncation after they were
modified and never subsequently modified again.
In other words, it tells us which blocks need to copied in case of an
incremental backup covering that range of WAL records. But this
doesn't yet add the capability to actually perform an incremental
backup; the next patch will do that.
A new parameter summarize_wal enables or disables this new background
process. The background process also automatically deletes summary
files that are older than wal_summarize_keep_time, if that parameter
has a non-zero value and the summarizer is configured to run.
Patch by me, with some design help from Dilip Kumar and Andres Freund.
Reviewed by Matthias van de Meent, Dilip Kumar, Jakub Wartak, Peter
Eisentraut, and Álvaro Herrera.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYOYZfMCyOXFyC-P+-mdrZqm5pP2N7S-r0z3_402h9rsA@mail.gmail.com
First, mark the xlblocks member with InvalidXLogRecPtr, then issue a
write barrier, then initialize it. That ensures that the xlblocks
member doesn't appear valid while the contents are being initialized.
In preparation for reading WAL buffer contents without a lock.
Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACVfFMfqD5oLzZSQQZWfXiJqd-NdX0_317veP6FuB31QWA@mail.gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund
