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2021-04-20Improve WAL record descriptions for SP-GiST records.Tom Lane
While tracking down the bug fixed in the preceding commit, I got quite annoyed by the low quality of spg_desc's output. Add missing fields, try to make the formatting consistent.
2021-04-12Remove COMMIT_TS_SETTS record.Fujii Masao
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
2021-04-06Remove tupgone special case from vacuumlazy.c.Peter Geoghegan
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
2021-03-10Don't consider newly inserted tuples in nbtree VACUUM.Peter Geoghegan
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.
2021-02-24Use full 64-bit XIDs in deleted nbtree pages.Peter Geoghegan
Otherwise we risk "leaking" deleted pages by making them non-recyclable indefinitely. Commit 6655a729 did the same thing for deleted pages in GiST indexes. That work was used as a starting point here. Stop storing an XID indicating the oldest bpto.xact across all deleted though unrecycled pages in nbtree metapages. There is no longer any reason to care about that condition/the oldest XID. It only ever made sense when wraparound was something _bt_vacuum_needs_cleanup() had to consider. The btm_oldest_btpo_xact metapage field has been repurposed and renamed. It is now btm_last_cleanup_num_delpages, which is used to remember how many non-recycled deleted pages remain from the last VACUUM (in practice its value is usually the precise number of pages that were _newly deleted_ during the specific VACUUM operation that last set the field). The general idea behind storing btm_last_cleanup_num_delpages is to use it to give _some_ consideration to non-recycled deleted pages inside _bt_vacuum_needs_cleanup() -- though never too much. We only really need to avoid leaving a truly excessive number of deleted pages in an unrecycled state forever. We only do this to cover certain narrow cases where no other factor makes VACUUM do a full scan, and yet the index continues to grow (and so actually misses out on recycling existing deleted pages). These metapage changes result in a clear user-visible benefit: We no longer trigger full index scans during VACUUM operations solely due to the presence of only 1 or 2 known deleted (though unrecycled) blocks from a very large index. All that matters now is keeping the costs and benefits in balance over time. Fix an issue that has been around since commit 857f9c36, which added the "skip full scan of index" mechanism (i.e. the _bt_vacuum_needs_cleanup() logic). The accuracy of btm_last_cleanup_num_heap_tuples accidentally hinged upon _when_ the source value gets stored. We now always store btm_last_cleanup_num_heap_tuples in btvacuumcleanup(). This fixes the issue because IndexVacuumInfo.num_heap_tuples (the source field) is expected to accurately indicate the state of the table _after_ the VACUUM completes inside btvacuumcleanup(). A backpatchable fix cannot easily be extracted from this commit. A targeted fix for the issue will follow in a later commit, though that won't happen today. I (pgeoghegan) have chosen to remove any mention of deleted pages in the documentation of the vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor GUC/param, since the presence of deleted (though unrecycled) pages is no longer of much concern to users. The vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor description in the docs now seems rather unclear in any case, and it should probably be rewritten in the near future. Perhaps some passing mention of page deletion will be added back at the same time. Bump XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC due to nbtree WAL records using full XIDs now. Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> Reviewed-By: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WznpdHvujGUwYZ8sihX=d5u-tRYhi-F4wnV2uN2zHpMUXw@mail.gmail.com
2021-02-23Simplify printing of LSNsPeter Eisentraut
Add a macro LSN_FORMAT_ARGS for use in printf-style printing of LSNs. Convert all applicable code to use it. Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat@enterprisedb.com> Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAExHW5ub5NaTELZ3hJUCE6amuvqAtsSxc7O+uK7y4t9Rrk23cw@mail.gmail.com
2021-01-13Enhance nbtree index tuple deletion.Peter Geoghegan
Teach nbtree and heapam to cooperate in order to eagerly remove duplicate tuples representing dead MVCC versions. This is "bottom-up deletion". Each bottom-up deletion pass is triggered lazily in response to a flood of versions on an nbtree leaf page. This usually involves a "logically unchanged index" hint (these are produced by the executor mechanism added by commit 9dc718bd). The immediate goal of bottom-up index deletion is to avoid "unnecessary" page splits caused entirely by version duplicates. It naturally has an even more useful effect, though: it acts as a backstop against accumulating an excessive number of index tuple versions for any given _logical row_. Bottom-up index deletion complements what we might now call "top-down index deletion": index vacuuming performed by VACUUM. Bottom-up index deletion responds to the immediate local needs of queries, while leaving it up to autovacuum to perform infrequent clean sweeps of the index. The overall effect is to avoid certain pathological performance issues related to "version churn" from UPDATEs. The previous tableam interface used by index AMs to perform tuple deletion (the table_compute_xid_horizon_for_tuples() function) has been replaced with a new interface that supports certain new requirements. Many (perhaps all) of the capabilities added to nbtree by this commit could also be extended to other index AMs. That is left as work for a later commit. Extend deletion of LP_DEAD-marked index tuples in nbtree by adding logic to consider extra index tuples (that are not LP_DEAD-marked) for deletion in passing. This increases the number of index tuples deleted significantly in many cases. The LP_DEAD deletion process (which is now called "simple deletion" to clearly distinguish it from bottom-up deletion) won't usually need to visit any extra table blocks to check these extra tuples. We have to visit the same table blocks anyway to generate a latestRemovedXid value (at least in the common case where the index deletion operation's WAL record needs such a value). Testing has shown that the "extra tuples" simple deletion enhancement increases the number of index tuples deleted with almost any workload that has LP_DEAD bits set in leaf pages. That is, it almost never fails to delete at least a few extra index tuples. It helps most of all in cases that happen to naturally have a lot of delete-safe tuples. It's not uncommon for an individual deletion operation to end up deleting an order of magnitude more index tuples compared to the old naive approach (e.g., custom instrumentation of the patch shows that this happens fairly often when the regression tests are run). Add a further enhancement that augments simple deletion and bottom-up deletion in indexes that make use of deduplication: Teach nbtree's _bt_delitems_delete() function to support granular TID deletion in posting list tuples. It is now possible to delete individual TIDs from posting list tuples provided the TIDs have a tableam block number of a table block that gets visited as part of the deletion process (visiting the table block can be triggered directly or indirectly). Setting the LP_DEAD bit of a posting list tuple is still an all-or-nothing thing, but that matters much less now that deletion only needs to start out with the right _general_ idea about which index tuples are deletable. Bump XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC because xl_btree_delete changed. No bump in BTREE_VERSION, since there are no changes to the on-disk representation of nbtree indexes. Indexes built on PostgreSQL 12 or PostgreSQL 13 will automatically benefit from bottom-up index deletion (i.e. no reindexing required) following a pg_upgrade. The enhancement to simple deletion is available with all B-Tree indexes following a pg_upgrade, no matter what PostgreSQL version the user upgrades from. Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> Reviewed-By: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> Reviewed-By: Victor Yegorov <vyegorov@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wzm+maE3apHB8NOtmM=p-DO65j2V5GzAWCOEEuy3JZgb2g@mail.gmail.com
2021-01-04Standardize one aspect of rmgr desc output.Peter Geoghegan
Bring heap and hash rmgr desc output in line with nbtree and GiST desc output by using the name latestRemovedXid for all fields that output the contents of the latestRemovedXid field from the WAL record's C struct (stop using local variants). This seems like a clear improvement because latestRemovedXid is a symbol name that already appears across many different source files, and so is probably much more recognizable. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wzkt_Rs4VqPSCk87nyjPAAEmWL8STU9zgET_83EF5YfrLw@mail.gmail.com
2021-01-02Update copyright for 2021Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-10-15Fixup some appendStringInfo and appendPQExpBuffer callsDavid Rowley
A number of places were using appendStringInfo() when they could have been using appendStringInfoString() instead. While there's no functionality change there, it's just more efficient to use appendStringInfoString() when no formatting is required. Likewise for some appendStringInfoString() calls which were just appending a single char. We can just use appendStringInfoChar() for that. Additionally, many places were using appendPQExpBuffer() when they could have used appendPQExpBufferStr(). Change those too. Patch by Zhijie Hou, but further searching by me found significantly more places that deserved the same treatment. Author: Zhijie Hou, David Rowley Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cb172cf4361e4c7ba7167429070979d4@G08CNEXMBPEKD05.g08.fujitsu.local
2020-09-10Print WAL logical message contents in pg_waldumpAlvaro Herrera
This helps debuggability when looking at WAL streams containing logical messages. Author: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat@2ndquadrant.com> Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAExHW5sWx49rKmXbg5H1Xc1t+nRv9PaYKQmgw82HPt6vWDVmDg@mail.gmail.com
2020-08-11Rename VariableCacheData.nextFullXid to nextXid.Andres Freund
Including Full in variable names duplicates the type information and leads to overly long names. As FullTransactionId cannot accidentally be casted to TransactionId that does not seem necessary. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200724011143.jccsyvsvymuiqfxu@alap3.anarazel.de
2020-07-23WAL Log invalidations at command end with wal_level=logical.Amit Kapila
When wal_level=logical, write invalidations at command end into WAL so that decoding can use this information. This patch is required to allow the streaming of in-progress transactions in logical decoding.  The actual work to allow streaming will be committed as a separate patch. We still add the invalidations to the cache and write them to WAL at commit time in RecordTransactionCommit(). This uses the existing XLOG_INVALIDATIONS xlog record type, from the RM_STANDBY_ID resource manager (see LogStandbyInvalidations for details). So existing code relying on those invalidations (e.g. redo) does not need to be changed. The invalidations written at command end uses a new xlog record type XLOG_XACT_INVALIDATIONS, from RM_XACT_ID resource manager. See LogLogicalInvalidations for details. These new xlog records are ignored by existing redo procedures, which still rely on the invalidations written to commit records. The invalidations are decoded and accumulated in top-transaction, and then executed during replay.  This obviates the need to decode the invalidations as part of a commit record. Bump XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC, since this introduces XLOG_XACT_INVALIDATIONS. Author: Dilip Kumar, Tomas Vondra, Amit Kapila Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila Tested-by: Neha Sharma and Mahendra Singh Thalor Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/688b0b7f-2f6c-d827-c27b-216a8e3ea700@2ndquadrant.com
2020-05-14Initial pgindent and pgperltidy run for v13.Tom Lane
Includes some manual cleanup of places that pgindent messed up, most of which weren't per project style anyway. Notably, it seems some people didn't absorb the style rules of commit c9d297751, because there were a bunch of new occurrences of function calls with a newline just after the left paren, all with faulty expectations about how the rest of the call would get indented.
2020-04-13Harmonize nbtree page split point code.Peter Geoghegan
An nbtree split point can be thought of as a point between two adjoining tuples from an imaginary version of the page being split that includes the incoming/new item (in addition to the items that really are on the page). These adjoining tuples are called the lastleft and firstright tuples. The variables that represent split points contained a field called firstright, which is an offset number of the first data item from the original page that goes on the new right page. The corresponding tuple from origpage was usually the same thing as the actual firstright tuple, but not always: the firstright tuple is sometimes the new/incoming item instead. This situation seems unnecessarily confusing. Make things clearer by renaming the origpage offset returned by _bt_findsplitloc() to "firstrightoff". We now have a firstright tuple and a firstrightoff offset number which are comparable to the newitem/lastleft tuples and the newitemoff/lastleftoff offset numbers respectively. Also make sure that we are consistent about how we describe nbtree page split point state. Push the responsibility for dealing with pg_upgrade'd !heapkeyspace indexes down to lower level code, relieving _bt_split() from dealing with it directly. This means that we always have a palloc'd left page high key on the leaf level, no matter what. This enables simplifying some of the code (and code comments) within _bt_split(). Finally, restructure the page split code to make it clearer why suffix truncation (which only takes place during leaf page splits) is completely different to the first data item truncation that takes place during internal page splits. Tuples are marked as having fewer attributes stored in both cases, and the firstright tuple is truncated in both cases, so it's easy to imagine somebody missing the distinction.
2020-04-04Skip WAL for new relfilenodes, under wal_level=minimal.Noah Misch
Until now, only selected bulk operations (e.g. COPY) did this. If a given relfilenode received both a WAL-skipping COPY and a WAL-logged operation (e.g. INSERT), recovery could lose tuples from the COPY. See src/backend/access/transam/README section "Skipping WAL for New RelFileNode" for the new coding rules. Maintainers of table access methods should examine that section. To maintain data durability, just before commit, we choose between an fsync of the relfilenode and copying its contents to WAL. A new GUC, wal_skip_threshold, guides that choice. If this change slows a workload that creates small, permanent relfilenodes under wal_level=minimal, try adjusting wal_skip_threshold. Users setting a timeout on COMMIT may need to adjust that timeout, and log_min_duration_statement analysis will reflect time consumption moving to COMMIT from commands like COPY. Internally, this requires a reliable determination of whether RollbackAndReleaseCurrentSubTransaction() would unlink a relation's current relfilenode. Introduce rd_firstRelfilenodeSubid. Amend the specification of rd_createSubid such that the field is zero when a new rel has an old rd_node. Make relcache.c retain entries for certain dropped relations until end of transaction. Bump XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC, since this introduces XLOG_GIST_ASSIGN_LSN. Future servers accept older WAL, so this bump is discretionary. Kyotaro Horiguchi, reviewed (in earlier, similar versions) by Robert Haas. Heikki Linnakangas and Michael Paquier implemented earlier designs that materially clarified the problem. Reviewed, in earlier designs, by Andrew Dunstan, Andres Freund, Alvaro Herrera, Tom Lane, Fujii Masao, and Simon Riggs. Reported by Martijn van Oosterhout. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20150702220524.GA9392@svana.org
2020-03-22Revert "Skip WAL for new relfilenodes, under wal_level=minimal."Noah Misch
This reverts commit cb2fd7eac285b1b0a24eeb2b8ed4456b66c5a09f. Per numerous buildfarm members, it was incompatible with parallel query, and a test case assumed LP64. Back-patch to 9.5 (all supported versions). Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200321224920.GB1763544@rfd.leadboat.com
2020-03-21Skip WAL for new relfilenodes, under wal_level=minimal.Noah Misch
Until now, only selected bulk operations (e.g. COPY) did this. If a given relfilenode received both a WAL-skipping COPY and a WAL-logged operation (e.g. INSERT), recovery could lose tuples from the COPY. See src/backend/access/transam/README section "Skipping WAL for New RelFileNode" for the new coding rules. Maintainers of table access methods should examine that section. To maintain data durability, just before commit, we choose between an fsync of the relfilenode and copying its contents to WAL. A new GUC, wal_skip_threshold, guides that choice. If this change slows a workload that creates small, permanent relfilenodes under wal_level=minimal, try adjusting wal_skip_threshold. Users setting a timeout on COMMIT may need to adjust that timeout, and log_min_duration_statement analysis will reflect time consumption moving to COMMIT from commands like COPY. Internally, this requires a reliable determination of whether RollbackAndReleaseCurrentSubTransaction() would unlink a relation's current relfilenode. Introduce rd_firstRelfilenodeSubid. Amend the specification of rd_createSubid such that the field is zero when a new rel has an old rd_node. Make relcache.c retain entries for certain dropped relations until end of transaction. Back-patch to 9.5 (all supported versions). This introduces a new WAL record type, XLOG_GIST_ASSIGN_LSN, without bumping XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC. As always, update standby systems before master systems. This changes sizeof(RelationData) and sizeof(IndexStmt), breaking binary compatibility for affected extensions. (The most recent commit to affect the same class of extensions was 089e4d405d0f3b94c74a2c6a54357a84a681754b.) Kyotaro Horiguchi, reviewed (in earlier, similar versions) by Robert Haas. Heikki Linnakangas and Michael Paquier implemented earlier designs that materially clarified the problem. Reviewed, in earlier designs, by Andrew Dunstan, Andres Freund, Alvaro Herrera, Tom Lane, Fujii Masao, and Simon Riggs. Reported by Martijn van Oosterhout. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20150702220524.GA9392@svana.org
2020-02-26Add deduplication to nbtree.Peter Geoghegan
Deduplication reduces the storage overhead of duplicates in indexes that use the standard nbtree index access method. The deduplication process is applied lazily, after the point where opportunistic deletion of LP_DEAD-marked index tuples occurs. Deduplication is only applied at the point where a leaf page split would otherwise be required. New posting list tuples are formed by merging together existing duplicate tuples. The physical representation of the items on an nbtree leaf page is made more space efficient by deduplication, but the logical contents of the page are not changed. Even unique indexes make use of deduplication as a way of controlling bloat from duplicates whose TIDs point to different versions of the same logical table row. The lazy approach taken by nbtree has significant advantages over a GIN style eager approach. Most individual inserts of index tuples have exactly the same overhead as before. The extra overhead of deduplication is amortized across insertions, just like the overhead of page splits. The key space of indexes works in the same way as it has since commit dd299df8 (the commit that made heap TID a tiebreaker column). Testing has shown that nbtree deduplication can generally make indexes with about 10 or 15 tuples for each distinct key value about 2.5X - 4X smaller, even with single column integer indexes (e.g., an index on a referencing column that accompanies a foreign key). The final size of single column nbtree indexes comes close to the final size of a similar contrib/btree_gin index, at least in cases where GIN's posting list compression isn't very effective. This can significantly improve transaction throughput, and significantly reduce the cost of vacuuming indexes. A new index storage parameter (deduplicate_items) controls the use of deduplication. The default setting is 'on', so all new B-Tree indexes automatically use deduplication where possible. This decision will be reviewed at the end of the Postgres 13 beta period. There is a regression of approximately 2% of transaction throughput with synthetic workloads that consist of append-only inserts into a table with several non-unique indexes, where all indexes have few or no repeated values. The underlying issue is that cycles are wasted on unsuccessful attempts at deduplicating items in non-unique indexes. There doesn't seem to be a way around it short of disabling deduplication entirely. Note that deduplication of items in unique indexes is fairly well targeted in general, which avoids the problem there (we can use a special heuristic to trigger deduplication passes in unique indexes, since we're specifically targeting "version bloat"). Bump XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC because xl_btree_vacuum changed. No bump in BTREE_VERSION, since the representation of posting list tuples works in a way that's backwards compatible with version 4 indexes (i.e. indexes built on PostgreSQL 12). However, users must still REINDEX a pg_upgrade'd index to use deduplication, regardless of the Postgres version they've upgraded from. This is the only way to set the new nbtree metapage flag indicating that deduplication is generally safe. Author: Anastasia Lubennikova, Peter Geoghegan Reviewed-By: Peter Geoghegan, Heikki Linnakangas Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/55E4051B.7020209@postgrespro.ru https://postgr.es/m/4ab6e2db-bcee-f4cf-0916-3a06e6ccbb55@postgrespro.ru
2020-01-30Clean up newlines following left parenthesesAlvaro Herrera
We used to strategically place newlines after some function call left parentheses to make pgindent move the argument list a few chars to the left, so that the whole line would fit under 80 chars. However, pgindent no longer does that, so the newlines just made the code vertically longer for no reason. Remove those newlines, and reflow some of those lines for some extra naturality. Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200129200401.GA6303@alvherre.pgsql
2020-01-03Add xl_btree_delete optimization.Peter Geoghegan
Commit 558a9165e08 taught _bt_delitems_delete() to produce its own XID horizon on the primary. Standbys no longer needed to generate their own latestRemovedXid, since they could just use the explicitly logged value from the primary instead. The deleted offset numbers array from the xl_btree_delete WAL record was no longer used by the REDO routine for anything other than deleting the items. This enables a minor optimization: We now treat the array as buffer state, not generic WAL data, following _bt_delitems_vacuum()'s example. This should be a minor win, since it allows us to avoid including the deleted items array in cases where XLogInsert() stores the whole buffer anyway. The primary goal here is to make the code more maintainable, though. Removing inessential differences between the two functions highlights the fundamental differences that remain. Also change xl_btree_delete to use uint32 for the size of the array of item offsets being deleted. This brings xl_btree_delete closer to xl_btree_vacuum. Furthermore, it seems like a good idea to use an explicit-width integer type (the field was previously an "int"). Bump XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC because xl_btree_delete changed. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wzkz4TjmezzfAbaV1zYrh=fr0bCpzuJTvBe5iUQ3aUPsCQ@mail.gmail.com
2020-01-01Update copyrights for 2020Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: update all files in master, backpatch legal files through 9.4
2019-12-19Remove unneeded "pin scan" nbtree VACUUM code.Peter Geoghegan
The REDO routine for nbtree's xl_btree_vacuum record type hasn't performed a "pin scan" since commit 3e4b7d87 went in, so clearly there isn't any point in VACUUM WAL-logging information that won't actually be used. Finish off the work of commit 3e4b7d87 (and the closely related preceding commit 687f2cd7) by removing the code that generates this unused information. Also remove the REDO routine code disabled by commit 3e4b7d87. Replace the unneeded lastBlockVacuumed field in xl_btree_vacuum with a new "ndeleted" field. The new field isn't actually needed right now, since we could continue to infer the array length from the overall record length. However, an upcoming patch to add deduplication to nbtree needs to add an "items updated" field to xl_btree_vacuum, so we might as well start being explicit about the number of items now. (Besides, it doesn't seem like a good idea to leave the xl_btree_vacuum struct without any fields; the C standard says that that's undefined.) nbtree VACUUM no longer forces writing a WAL record for the last block in the index. Writing out a WAL record with no items for the final block was supposed to force processing of a lastBlockVacuumed field by a pin scan. Bump XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC because xl_btree_vacuum changed. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzmY_mT7UnTzFB5LBQDBkKpdV5UxP3B5bLb7uP%3D%3D6UQJRQ%40mail.gmail.com
2019-11-28Remove useless "return;" linesAlvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191128144653.GA27883@alvherre.pgsql
2019-11-21Make DROP DATABASE command generate less WAL records.Fujii Masao
Previously DROP DATABASE generated as many XLOG_DBASE_DROP WAL records as the number of tablespaces that the database to drop uses. This caused the scans of shared_buffers as many times as the number of the tablespaces during recovery because WAL replay of one XLOG_DBASE_DROP record needs that full scan. This could make the recovery time longer especially when shared_buffers is large. This commit changes DROP DATABASE so that it generates only one XLOG_DBASE_DROP record, and registers the information of all the tablespaces into it. Then, WAL replay of XLOG_DBASE_DROP record needs full scan of shared_buffers only once, and which may improve the recovery performance. Author: Fujii Masao Reviewed-by: Kirk Jamison, Simon Riggs Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHGQGwF8YwNH0ZaL+2wjZPkj+ji9UhC+Z4ScnG97WKtVY5L9iw@mail.gmail.com
2019-11-13Make pg_waldump report more detail information about PREPARE TRANSACTION record.Fujii Masao
This commit changes xact_desc() so that it reports the detail information about PREPARE TRANSACTION record, like GID (global transaction identifier), timestamp at prepare transaction, delete-on-abort/commit relations, XID of subtransactions, and invalidation messages. These are helpful when diagnosing 2PC-related troubles. Author: Fujii Masao Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Andrey Lepikhov, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Julien Rouhaud, Alvaro Herrera Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHGQGwEvhASad4JJnCv=0dW2TJypZgW_Vpb-oZik2a3utCqcrA@mail.gmail.com
2019-11-05Split all OBJS style lines in makefiles into one-line-per-entry style.Andres Freund
When maintaining or merging patches, one of the most common sources for conflicts are the list of objects in makefiles. Especially when the split across lines has been changed on both sides, which is somewhat common due to attempting to stay below 80 columns, those conflicts are unnecessarily laborious to resolve. By splitting, and alphabetically sorting, OBJS style lines into one object per line, conflicts should be less frequent, and easier to resolve when they still occur. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191029200901.vww4idgcxv74cwes@alap3.anarazel.de
2019-09-12Fix nbtree page split rmgr desc routine.Peter Geoghegan
Include newitemoff in rmgr desc output for nbtree page split records. In passing, correct an obsolete comment that claimed that newitemoff is only logged for _L variant nbtree page split WAL records. Both issues were oversights in commit 2c03216d831, which revamped the WAL format. Author: Peter Geoghegan Backpatch: 9.5-, where the WAL format was revamped.
2019-07-24Use full 64-bit XID for checking if a deleted GiST page is old enough.Heikki Linnakangas
Otherwise, after a deleted page gets even older, it becomes unrecyclable again. B-tree has the same problem, and has had since time immemorial, but let's at least fix this in GiST, where this is new. Backpatch to v12, where GiST page deletion was introduced. Reviewed-by: Andrey Borodin Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/835A15A5-F1B4-4446-A711-BF48357EB602%40yandex-team.ru
2019-07-04Use appendStringInfoString and appendPQExpBufferStr where possibleDavid Rowley
This changes various places where appendPQExpBuffer was used in places where it was possible to use appendPQExpBufferStr, and likewise for appendStringInfo and appendStringInfoString. This is really just a stylistic improvement, but there are also small performance gains to be had from doing this. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f9P=M-3ULmPvr8iCno8yvfDViHibJjpriHU8+SXUgeZ=w@mail.gmail.com
2019-06-19Fix description of WAL record XLOG_BTREE_META_CLEANUPMichael Paquier
This record uses one metadata buffer and registers some data associated to the buffer, but when parsing the record for its description a direct access to the record data was done, but there is none. This leads usually to an incorrect description, but can also cause crashes like in pg_waldump. Instead, fix things so as the parsing uses the data associated to the metadata block. This is an oversight from 3d92796, so backpatch down to 11. Author: Michael Paquier Description: https://postgr.es/m/20190617013059.GA3153@paquier.xyz Backpatch-through: 11
2019-04-22Convert gist to compute page level xid horizon on primary.Andres Freund
Due to parallel development, gist added the missing conflict information in c952eae52a3, while 558a9165e08 moved that computation to the primary for the index types that already had it. Thus adapt gist to also compute on the primary, using index_compute_xid_horizon_for_tuples() instead of its own copy of the logic. This also adds pg_waldump support for XLOG_GIST_DELETE records, which previously was not properly present. Bumps WAL version. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190406050243.bszosdg4buvabfrt@alap3.anarazel.de
2019-04-03Generate less WAL during GiST, GIN and SP-GiST index build.Heikki Linnakangas
Instead of WAL-logging every modification during the build separately, first build the index without any WAL-logging, and make a separate pass through the index at the end, to write all pages to the WAL. This significantly reduces the amount of WAL generated, and is usually also faster, despite the extra I/O needed for the extra scan through the index. WAL generated this way is also faster to replay. For GiST, the LSN-NSN interlock makes this a little tricky. All pages must be marked with a valid (i.e. non-zero) LSN, so that the parent-child LSN-NSN interlock works correctly. We now use magic value 1 for that during index build. Change the fake LSN counter to begin from 1000, so that 1 is safely smaller than any real or fake LSN. 2 would've been enough for our purposes, but let's reserve a bigger range, in case we need more special values in the future. Author: Anastasia Lubennikova, Andrey V. Lepikhov Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas, Dmitry Dolgov
2019-03-28Add basic infrastructure for 64 bit transaction IDs.Thomas Munro
Instead of inferring epoch progress from xids and checkpoints, introduce a 64 bit FullTransactionId type and use it to track xid generation. This fixes an unlikely bug where the epoch is reported incorrectly if the range of active xids wraps around more than once between checkpoints. The only user-visible effect of this commit is to correct the epoch used by txid_current() and txid_status(), also visible with pg_controldata, in those rare circumstances. It also creates some basic infrastructure so that later patches can use 64 bit transaction IDs in more places. The new type is a struct that we pass by value, as a form of strong typedef. This prevents the sort of accidental confusion between TransactionId and FullTransactionId that would be possible if we were to use a plain old uint64. Author: Thomas Munro Reported-by: Amit Kapila Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Tom Lane, Heikki Linnakangas Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1%2BMv%2Bmb0HFfWM9Srtc6MVe160WFurXV68iAFMcagRZ0dQ%40mail.gmail.com
2019-03-26Compute XID horizon for page level index vacuum on primary.Andres Freund
Previously the xid horizon was only computed during WAL replay. That had two major problems: 1) It relied on knowing what the table pointed to looks like. That was easy enough before the introducing of tableam (we knew it had to be heap, although some trickery around logging the heap relfilenodes was required). But to properly handle table AMs we need per-database catalog access to look up the AM handler, which recovery doesn't allow. 2) Not knowing the xid horizon also makes it hard to support logical decoding on standbys. When on a catalog table, we need to be able to conflict with slots that have an xid horizon that's too old. But computing the horizon by visiting the heap only works once consistency is reached, but we always need to be able to detect conflicts. There's also a secondary problem, in that the current method performs redundant work on every standby. But that's counterbalanced by potentially computing the value when not necessary (either because there's no standby, or because there's no connected backends). Solve 1) and 2) by moving computation of the xid horizon to the primary and by involving tableam in the computation of the horizon. To address the potentially increased overhead, increase the efficiency of the xid horizon computation for heap by sorting the tids, and eliminating redundant buffer accesses. When prefetching is available, additionally perform prefetching of buffers. As this is more of a maintenance task, rather than something routinely done in every read only query, we add an arbitrary 10 to the effective concurrency - thereby using IO concurrency, when not globally enabled. That's possibly not the perfect formula, but seems good enough for now. Bumps WAL format, as latestRemovedXid is now part of the records, and the heap's relfilenode isn't anymore. Author: Andres Freund, Amit Khandekar, Robert Haas Reviewed-By: Robert Haas Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181212204154.nsxf3gzqv3gesl32@alap3.anarazel.de https://postgr.es/m/20181214014235.dal5ogljs3bmlq44@alap3.anarazel.de https://postgr.es/m/20180703070645.wchpu5muyto5n647@alap3.anarazel.de
2019-03-22Delete empty pages during GiST VACUUM.Heikki Linnakangas
To do this, we scan GiST two times. In the first pass we make note of empty leaf pages and internal pages. At second pass we scan through internal pages, looking for downlinks to the empty pages. Deleting internal pages is still not supported, like in nbtree, the last child of an internal page is never deleted. That means that if you have a workload where new keys are always inserted to different area than where old keys are removed, the index will still grow without bound. But the rate of growth will be an order of magnitude slower than before. Author: Andrey Borodin Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/B1E4DF12-6CD3-4706-BDBD-BF3283328F60@yandex-team.ru
2019-03-20Make heap TID a tiebreaker nbtree index column.Peter Geoghegan
Make nbtree treat all index tuples as having a heap TID attribute. Index searches can distinguish duplicates by heap TID, since heap TID is always guaranteed to be unique. This general approach has numerous benefits for performance, and is prerequisite to teaching VACUUM to perform "retail index tuple deletion". Naively adding a new attribute to every pivot tuple has unacceptable overhead (it bloats internal pages), so suffix truncation of pivot tuples is added. This will usually truncate away the "extra" heap TID attribute from pivot tuples during a leaf page split, and may also truncate away additional user attributes. This can increase fan-out, especially in a multi-column index. Truncation can only occur at the attribute granularity, which isn't particularly effective, but works well enough for now. A future patch may add support for truncating "within" text attributes by generating truncated key values using new opclass infrastructure. Only new indexes (BTREE_VERSION 4 indexes) will have insertions that treat heap TID as a tiebreaker attribute, or will have pivot tuples undergo suffix truncation during a leaf page split (on-disk compatibility with versions 2 and 3 is preserved). Upgrades to version 4 cannot be performed on-the-fly, unlike upgrades from version 2 to version 3. contrib/amcheck continues to work with version 2 and 3 indexes, while also enforcing stricter invariants when verifying version 4 indexes. These stricter invariants are the same invariants described by "3.1.12 Sequencing" from the Lehman and Yao paper. A later patch will enhance the logic used by nbtree to pick a split point. This patch is likely to negatively impact performance without smarter choices around the precise point to split leaf pages at. Making these two mostly-distinct sets of enhancements into distinct commits seems like it might clarify their design, even though neither commit is particularly useful on its own. The maximum allowed size of new tuples is reduced by an amount equal to the space required to store an extra MAXALIGN()'d TID in a new high key during leaf page splits. The user-facing definition of the "1/3 of a page" restriction is already imprecise, and so does not need to be revised. However, there should be a compatibility note in the v12 release notes. Author: Peter Geoghegan Reviewed-By: Heikki Linnakangas, Alexander Korotkov Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkVb0Kom=R+88fDFb=JSxZMFvbHVC6Mn9LJ2n=X=kS-Uw@mail.gmail.com
2019-02-12Fix description of WAL record XLOG_PARAMETER_CHANGEMichael Paquier
max_wal_senders and max_worker_processes got reversed in the output generated because of ea92368. Reported-by: Kevin Hale Boyes Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADAecHVAD4=26KAx4nj5DBvxqqvJkuwsy+riiiNhQqwnZg2K8Q@mail.gmail.com
2019-02-12Move max_wal_senders out of max_connections for connection slot handlingMichael Paquier
Since its introduction, max_wal_senders is counted as part of max_connections when it comes to define how many connection slots can be used for replication connections with a WAL sender context. This can lead to confusion for some users, as it could be possible to block a base backup or replication from happening because other backend sessions are already taken for other purposes by an application, and superuser-only connection slots are not a correct solution to handle that case. This commit makes max_wal_senders independent of max_connections for its handling of PGPROC entries in ProcGlobal, meaning that connection slots for WAL senders are handled using their own free queue, like autovacuum workers and bgworkers. One compatibility issue that this change creates is that a standby now requires to have a value of max_wal_senders at least equal to its primary. So, if a standby created enforces the value of max_wal_senders to be lower than that, then this could break failovers. Normally this should not be an issue though, as any settings of a standby are inherited from its primary as postgresql.conf gets normally copied as part of a base backup, so parameters would be consistent. Author: Alexander Kukushkin Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Petr Jelínek, Masahiko Sawada, Oleksii Kliukin Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFh8B=nBzHQeYAu0b8fjK-AF1X4+_p6GRtwG+cCgs6Vci2uRuQ@mail.gmail.com
2019-01-02Update copyright for 2019Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.4
2018-12-21Check for conflicting queries during replay of gistvacuumpage()Alexander Korotkov
013ebc0a7b implements so-called GiST microvacuum. That is gistgettuple() marks index tuples as dead when kill_prior_tuple is set. Later, when new tuple insertion claims page space, those dead index tuples are physically deleted from page. When this deletion is replayed on standby, it might conflict with read-only queries. But 013ebc0a7b doesn't handle this. That may lead to disappearance of some tuples from read-only snapshots on standby. This commit implements resolving of conflicts between replay of GiST microvacuum and standby queries. On the master we implement new WAL record type XLOG_GIST_DELETE, which comprises necessary information. On stable releases we've to be tricky to keep WAL compatibility. Information required for conflict processing is just appended to data of XLOG_GIST_PAGE_UPDATE record. So, PostgreSQL version, which doesn't know about conflict processing, will just ignore that. Reported-by: Andres Freund Diagnosed-by: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181212224524.scafnlyjindmrbe6%40alap3.anarazel.de Author: Alexander Korotkov Backpatch-through: 9.6
2018-11-20Make WAL description output more consistentPeter Eisentraut
The output for record types XLOG_DBASE_CREATE and XLOG_DBASE_DROP used the order dbid/tablespaceid, whereas elsewhere the order is tablespaceid/dbid[/relfilenodeid]. Flip the order for those two types to make it consistent. Author: Jean-Christophe Arnu <jcarnu@gmail.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAHZmTm18Ln62KW-G8NYvO1wbBL3QU1E76Zep=DuHmg-zS2XFAg@mail.gmail.com/
2018-11-14Add flag values in WAL description to all heap recordsMichael Paquier
Hexadecimal is consistently used as format to not bloat too much the output but keep it readable. This information is useful mainly for debugging purposes with for example pg_waldump. Author: Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart, Dmitry Dolgov, Andres Freund, Álvaro Herrera Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180413034734.GE1552@paquier.xyz
2018-05-20printf("%lf") is not portable, so omit the "l".Tom Lane
The "l" (ell) width spec means something in the corresponding scanf usage, but not here. While modern POSIX says that applying "l" to "f" and other floating format specs is a no-op, SUSv2 says it's undefined. Buildfarm experience says that some old compilers emit warnings about it, and at least one old stdio implementation (mingw's "ANSI" option) actually produces wrong answers and/or crashes. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/21670.1526769114@sss.pgh.pa.us Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c085e1da-0d64-1c15-242d-c921f32e0d5c@dunslane.net
2018-04-19Handle XLOG_BTREE_META_CLEANUP in btree_desc() and btree_identify()Teodor Sigaev
New WAL record XLOG_BTREE_META_CLEANUP introduced in 857f9c36 has no handling in btree_desc() and btree_identify(). This patch implements corresponding handling. Alexander Korotkov
2018-04-17Fix confusion on the padding of GIDs in on commit and abort records.Heikki Linnakangas
Review of commit 1eb6d652: It's pointless to add padding to the GID fields, when the code that follows assumes that there is no alignment, and uses memcpy(). Remove the pointless padding. Update comments to note the new fields in the WAL records. Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/33b787bf-dc20-1161-54e9-3f3b607bf59d%40iki.fi
2018-04-09Further cleanup of client dependencies on src/include/catalog headers.Tom Lane
In commit 9c0a0de4c, I'd failed to notice that catalog/catalog.h should also be considered a frontend-unsafe header, because it includes (and needs) the full form of pg_class.h, not to mention relcache.h. However, various frontend code was depending on it to get TABLESPACE_VERSION_DIRECTORY, so refactoring of some sort is called for. The cleanest answer seems to be to move TABLESPACE_VERSION_DIRECTORY, as well as the OIDCHARS symbol, to common/relpath.h. Do that, and mop up inclusions as necessary. (I found that quite a few current users of catalog/catalog.h don't seem to need it at all anymore, apparently as a result of the refactorings that created common/relpath.[hc]. And initdb.c needed it only as a route to pg_class_d.h.) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6629.1523294509@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-04-09Revert "Allow on-line enabling and disabling of data checksums"Magnus Hagander
This reverts the backend sides of commit 1fde38beaa0c3e66c340efc7cc0dc272d6254bb0. I have, at least for now, left the pg_verify_checksums tool in place, as this tool can be very valuable without the rest of the patch as well, and since it's a read-only tool that only runs when the cluster is down it should be a lot safer.
2018-04-07Indexes with INCLUDE columns and their support in B-treeTeodor Sigaev
This patch introduces INCLUDE clause to index definition. This clause specifies a list of columns which will be included as a non-key part in the index. The INCLUDE columns exist solely to allow more queries to benefit from index-only scans. Also, such columns don't need to have appropriate operator classes. Expressions are not supported as INCLUDE columns since they cannot be used in index-only scans. Index access methods supporting INCLUDE are indicated by amcaninclude flag in IndexAmRoutine. For now, only B-tree indexes support INCLUDE clause. In B-tree indexes INCLUDE columns are truncated from pivot index tuples (tuples located in non-leaf pages and high keys). Therefore, B-tree indexes now might have variable number of attributes. This patch also provides generic facility to support that: pivot tuples contain number of their attributes in t_tid.ip_posid. Free 13th bit of t_info is used for indicating that. This facility will simplify further support of index suffix truncation. The changes of above are backward-compatible, pg_upgrade doesn't need special handling of B-tree indexes for that. Bump catalog version Author: Anastasia Lubennikova with contribition by Alexander Korotkov and me Reviewed by: Peter Geoghegan, Tomas Vondra, Antonin Houska, Jeff Janes, David Rowley, Alexander Korotkov Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/56168952.4010101@postgrespro.ru
2018-04-07Logical decoding of TRUNCATEPeter Eisentraut
Add a new WAL record type for TRUNCATE, which is only used when wal_level >= logical. (For physical replication, TRUNCATE is already replicated via SMGR records.) Add new callback for logical decoding output plugins to receive TRUNCATE actions. Author: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> Author: Marco Nenciarini <marco.nenciarini@2ndquadrant.it> Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com> Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>