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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2016-02-18 15:40:35 -0500
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2016-02-18 15:40:35 -0500
commitb7547166fec6b103a6839018f2f7a3500e9bc842 (patch)
tree38b3b83d9cbca6255b4b3220ed2a04c7f15e10d4 /doc/src
parentf461fa7d07389e09dcc46d994cac02e52ce89e6b (diff)
Fix multiple bugs in contrib/pgstattuple's pgstatindex() function.
Dead or half-dead index leaf pages were incorrectly reported as live, as a consequence of a code rearrangement I made (during a moment of severe brain fade, evidently) in commit d287818eb514d431. The index metapage was not counted in index_size, causing that result to not agree with the actual index size on-disk. Index root pages were not counted in internal_pages, which is inconsistent compared to the case of a root that's also a leaf (one-page index), where the root would be counted in leaf_pages. Aside from that inconsistency, this could lead to additional transient discrepancies between the reported page counts and index_size, since it's possible for pgstatindex's scan to see zero or multiple pages marked as BTP_ROOT, if the root moves due to a split during the scan. With these fixes, index_size will always be exactly one page more than the sum of the displayed page counts. Also, the index_size result was incorrectly documented as being measured in pages; it's always been measured in bytes. (While fixing that, I couldn't resist doing some small additional wordsmithing on the pgstattuple docs.) Including the metapage causes the reported index_size to not be zero for an empty index. To preserve the desired property that the pgstattuple regression test results are platform-independent (ie, BLCKSZ configuration independent), scale the index_size result in the regression tests. The documentation issue was reported by Otsuka Kenji, and the inconsistent root page counting by Peter Geoghegan; the other problems noted by me. Back-patch to all supported branches, because this has been broken for a long time.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/src')
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/pgstattuple.sgml27
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/pgstattuple.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/pgstattuple.sgml
index 9cabd71166e..153330edee1 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/pgstattuple.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/pgstattuple.sgml
@@ -130,9 +130,9 @@ free_percent | 1.95
<listitem>
<para>
This is the same as <function>pgstattuple(regclass)</function>, except
- that the target relation is specified by TEXT. This function is kept
+ that the target relation is specified as TEXT. This function is kept
because of backward-compatibility so far, and will be deprecated in
- the future release.
+ some future release.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -154,13 +154,13 @@ test=> SELECT * FROM pgstatindex('pg_cast_oid_index');
-[ RECORD 1 ]------+------
version | 2
tree_level | 0
-index_size | 8192
+index_size | 16384
root_block_no | 1
internal_pages | 0
leaf_pages | 1
empty_pages | 0
deleted_pages | 0
-avg_leaf_density | 50.27
+avg_leaf_density | 54.27
leaf_fragmentation | 0
</programlisting>
</para>
@@ -194,13 +194,13 @@ leaf_fragmentation | 0
<row>
<entry><structfield>index_size</structfield></entry>
<entry><type>bigint</type></entry>
- <entry>Total number of pages in index</entry>
+ <entry>Total index size in bytes</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><structfield>root_block_no</structfield></entry>
<entry><type>bigint</type></entry>
- <entry>Location of root block</entry>
+ <entry>Location of root page (zero if none)</entry>
</row>
<row>
@@ -245,6 +245,13 @@ leaf_fragmentation | 0
</para>
<para>
+ The reported <literal>index_size</> will normally correspond to one more
+ page than is accounted for by <literal>internal_pages + leaf_pages +
+ empty_pages + deleted_pages</literal>, because it also includes the
+ index's metapage.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
As with <function>pgstattuple</>, the results are accumulated
page-by-page, and should not be expected to represent an
instantaneous snapshot of the whole index.
@@ -260,9 +267,9 @@ leaf_fragmentation | 0
<listitem>
<para>
This is the same as <function>pgstatindex(regclass)</function>, except
- that the target index is specified by TEXT. This function is kept
+ that the target index is specified as TEXT. This function is kept
because of backward-compatibility so far, and will be deprecated in
- the future release.
+ some future release.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -351,9 +358,9 @@ pending_tuples | 0
<listitem>
<para>
This is the same as <function>pg_relpages(regclass)</function>, except
- that the target relation is specified by TEXT. This function is kept
+ that the target relation is specified as TEXT. This function is kept
because of backward-compatibility so far, and will be deprecated in
- the future release.
+ some future release.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>