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2006-08-21Make the server track an 'XID epoch', that is, maintain higher-order bitsTom Lane
of the transaction ID counter. Nothing is done with the epoch except to store it in checkpoint records, but this provides a foundation with which add-on code can pretend that XIDs never wrap around. This is a severely trimmed and rewritten version of the xxid patch submitted by Marko Kreen. Per discussion, the epoch counter seems the only part of xxid that really needs to be in the core server.
2006-08-18Now that we've rearranged relation open to get a lock before touchingTom Lane
the rel, it's easy to get rid of the narrow race-condition window that used to exist in VACUUM and CLUSTER. Did some minor code-beautification work in the same area, too.
2006-08-17Implement archive_timeout feature to force xlog file switches to occur no moreTom Lane
than N seconds apart. This allows a simple, if not very high performance, means of guaranteeing that a PITR archive is no more than N seconds behind real time. Also make pg_current_xlog_location return the WAL Write pointer, add pg_current_xlog_insert_location to return the Insert pointer, and fix pg_xlogfile_name_offset to return its results as a two-element record instead of a smashed-together string, as per recent discussion. Simon Riggs
2006-08-12Add INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE RETURNING, with basic docs and regression tests.Tom Lane
plpgsql support to come later. Along the way, convert execMain's SELECT INTO support into a DestReceiver, in order to eliminate some ugly special cases. Jonah Harris and Tom Lane
2006-08-07Make recovery from WAL be restartable, by executing a checkpoint-likeTom Lane
operation every so often. This improves the usefulness of PITR log shipping for hot standby: formerly, if the standby server crashed, it was necessary to restart it from the last base backup and replay all the WAL since then. Now it will only need to reread about the same amount of WAL as the master server would. The behavior might also come in handy during a long PITR replay sequence. Simon Riggs, with some editorialization by Tom Lane.
2006-08-06Add support for forcing a switch to a new xlog file; cause such a switchTom Lane
to happen automatically during pg_stop_backup(). Add some functions for interrogating the current xlog insertion point and for easily extracting WAL filenames from the hex WAL locations displayed by pg_stop_backup and friends. Simon Riggs with some editorialization by Tom Lane.
2006-08-03Add missing pgstat_count_index_scan(), per Andreas Seltenreich.Tom Lane
2006-07-31Change the relation_open protocol so that we obtain lock on a relationTom Lane
(table or index) before trying to open its relcache entry. This fixes race conditions in which someone else commits a change to the relation's catalog entries while we are in process of doing relcache load. Problems of that ilk have been reported sporadically for years, but it was not really practical to fix until recently --- for instance, the recent addition of WAL-log support for in-place updates helped. Along the way, remove pg_am.amconcurrent: all AMs are now expected to support concurrent update.
2006-07-30Modify snapshot definition so that lazy vacuums are ignored by otherAlvaro Herrera
vacuums. This allows a OLTP-like system with big tables to continue regular vacuuming on small-but-frequently-updated tables while the big tables are being vacuumed. Original patch from Hannu Krossing, rewritten by Tom Lane and updated by me.
2006-07-25Modify btree to delete known-dead index entries without an actual VACUUM.Tom Lane
When we are about to split an index page to do an insertion, first look to see if any entries marked LP_DELETE exist on the page, and if so remove them to try to make enough space for the desired insert. This should reduce index bloat in heavily-updated tables, although of course you still need VACUUM eventually to clean up the heap. Junji Teramoto
2006-07-24DTrace support, with a small initial set of probesPeter Eisentraut
by Robert Lor
2006-07-20Don't try to truncate multixact SLRU files in checkpoints done during xlogTom Lane
recovery. In the first place, it doesn't work because slru's latest_page_number isn't set up yet (this is why we've been hearing reports of strange "apparent wraparound" log messages during crash recovery, but only from people who'd managed to advance their next-mxact counters some considerable distance from 0). In the second place, it seems a bit unwise to be throwing away data during crash recovery anwyway. This latter consideration convinces me to just disable truncation during recovery, rather than computing latest_page_number and pushing ahead.
2006-07-16Fix getDatumCopy(): don't use store_att_byval to copy into a DatumTom Lane
variable (this accounts for regression failures on PPC64, and in fact won't work on any big-endian machine). Get rid of hardwired knowledge about datum size rules; make it look just like datumCopy().
2006-07-16Improve error message wording.Tom Lane
2006-07-14Fix misguided removal of access/tuptoaster.h inclusion, per Kris Jurka.Tom Lane
I'm going to insist on reversion of this entire patch unless pgrminclude is upgraded to a less broken state, but in the meantime let's get contrib passing regression again.
2006-07-14Remove 576 references of include files that were not needed.Bruce Momjian
2006-07-13Allow include files to compile own their own.Bruce Momjian
Strip unused include files out unused include files, and add needed includes to C files. The next step is to remove unused include files in C files.
2006-07-11Tweak fillfactor code as per my recent proposal. Fix nbtsort.c so thatTom Lane
it can handle small fillfactors for ordinary-sized index entries without failing on large ones; fix nbtinsert.c to distinguish leaf and nonleaf pages; change the minimum fillfactor to 10% for all index types.
2006-07-11Add support to GIN for =(anyarray,anyarray) operationTeodor Sigaev
2006-07-11Alphabetically order reference to include files, "S"-"Z".Bruce Momjian
2006-07-11Alphabetically order reference to include files, "N" - "S".Bruce Momjian
2006-07-11Alphabetically order reference to include files, "G" - "M".Bruce Momjian
2006-07-11GIN improvementsTeodor Sigaev
- Replace sorted array of entries in maintenance_work_mem to binary tree, this should improve create performance. - More precisely calculate allocated memory, eliminate leaks with user-defined extractValue() - Improve wordings in tsearch2
2006-07-10Improve vacuum code to track minimum Xids per table instead of per database.Alvaro Herrera
To this end, add a couple of columns to pg_class, relminxid and relvacuumxid, based on which we calculate the pg_database columns after each vacuum. We now force all databases to be vacuumed, even template ones. A backend noticing too old a database (meaning pg_database.datminxid is in danger of falling behind Xid wraparound) will signal the postmaster, which in turn will start an autovacuum iteration to process the offending database. In principle this is only there to cope with frozen (non-connectable) databases without forcing users to set them to connectable, but it could force regular user database to go through a database-wide vacuum at any time. Maybe we should warn users about this somehow. Of course the real solution will be to use autovacuum all the time ;-) There are some additional improvements we could have in this area: for example the vacuum code could be smarter about not updating pg_database for each table when called by autovacuum, and do it only once the whole autovacuum iteration is done. I updated the system catalogs documentation, but I didn't modify the maintenance section. Also having some regression tests for this would be nice but it's not really a very straightforward thing to do. Catalog version bumped due to system catalog changes.
2006-07-03Code review for FILLFACTOR patch. Change WITH grammar as per earlierTom Lane
discussion (including making def_arg allow reserved words), add missed opt_definition for UNIQUE case. Put the reloptions support code in a less random place (I chose to make a new file access/common/reloptions.c). Eliminate header inclusion creep. Make the index options functions safely user-callable (seems like client apps might like to be able to test validity of options before trying to make an index). Reduce overhead for normal case with no options by allowing rd_options to be NULL. Fix some unmaintainably klugy code, including getting rid of Natts_pg_class_fixed at long last. Some stylistic cleanup too, and pay attention to keeping comments in sync with code. Documentation still needs work, though I did fix the omissions in catalogs.sgml and indexam.sgml.
2006-07-02Add FILLFACTOR to CREATE INDEX.Bruce Momjian
ITAGAKI Takahiro
2006-06-28Forget to add new file :((Teodor Sigaev
2006-06-28ChangesTeodor Sigaev
* new split algorithm (as proposed in http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-06/msg00254.php) * possible call pickSplit() for second and below columns * add spl_(l|r)datum_exists to GIST_SPLITVEC - pickSplit should check its values to use already defined spl_(l|r)datum for splitting. pickSplit should set spl_(l|r)datum_exists to 'false' (if they was 'true') to signal to caller about using spl_(l|r)datum. * support for old pickSplit(): not very optimal but correct split * remove 'bytes' field from GISTENTRY: in any case size of value is defined by it's type. * split GIST_SPLITVEC to two structures: one for using in picksplit and second - for internal use. * some code refactoring * support of subsplit to rtree opclasses TODO: add support of subsplit to contrib modules
2006-06-27Put #ifdef NOT_USED around posix_fadvise call. We may want to resurrectTom Lane
this someday, but right now it seems that posix_fadvise is immature to the point of being broken on many platforms ... and we don't have any benchmark evidence proving it's worth spending time on.
2006-06-27Extend the MinimalTuple concept to tuplesort.c, thereby reducing theTom Lane
per-tuple space overhead for sorts in memory. I chose to replace the previous patch that tried to write out the bare minimum amount of data when sorting on disk; instead, just dump the MinimalTuples as-is. This wastes 3 to 10 bytes per tuple depending on architecture and null-bitmap length, but the simplification in the writetup/readtup routines seems worth it.
2006-06-27Create infrastructure for 'MinimalTuple' representation of in-memoryTom Lane
tuples with less header overhead than a regular HeapTuple, per my recent proposal. Teach TupleTableSlot code how to deal with these. As proof of concept, change tuplestore.c to store MinimalTuples instead of HeapTuples. Future patches will expand the concept to other places where it is useful.
2006-06-22pg_stop_backup was calling XLogArchiveNotify() twice for the newly createdTom Lane
backup history file. Bug introduced by the 8.1 change to make pg_stop_backup delete older history files. Per report from Masao Fujii.
2006-06-20Remove redundant gettimeofday() calls to the extent practical withoutTom Lane
changing semantics too much. statement_timestamp is now set immediately upon receipt of a client command message, and the various places that used to do their own gettimeofday() calls to mark command startup are referenced to that instead. I have also made stats_command_string use that same value for pg_stat_activity.query_start for both the command itself and its eventual replacement by <IDLE> or <idle in transaction>. There was some debate about that, but no argument that seemed convincing enough to justify an extra gettimeofday() call.
2006-06-18Don't try to call posix_fadvise() unless <fcntl.h> supplies a declarationTom Lane
for it. Hopefully will fix core dump evidenced by some buildfarm members since fadvise patch went in. The actual definition of the function is not ABI-compatible with compiler's default assumption in the absence of any declaration, so it's clearly unsafe to try to call it without seeing a declaration.
2006-06-16Fix problems with cached tuple descriptors disappearing while still in useTom Lane
by creating a reference-count mechanism, similar to what we did a long time ago for catcache entries. The back branches have an ugly solution involving lots of extra copies, but this way is more efficient. Reference counting is only applied to tupdescs that are actually in caches --- there seems no need to use it for tupdescs that are generated in the executor, since they'll go away during plan shutdown by virtue of being in the per-query memory context. Neil Conway and Tom Lane
2006-06-16Test for POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED to use posix_fadvise().Bruce Momjian
2006-06-15Use posix_fadvise() to avoid kernel caching of WAL contents on WAL fileBruce Momjian
close. ITAGAKI Takahiro
2006-05-29Som improve page split in multicolumn GiST index.Teodor Sigaev
If user picksplit on n-th column generate equals left and right unions then it calls picksplit on n+1-th column.
2006-05-29Correct cheking in findParents(). iTeodor Sigaev
From Andreas Seltenreich <andreas+pg@gate450.dyndns.org>
2006-05-28Remove traces of otherwise unused RELKIND_SPECIAL symbol. Leave the psql bitsAlvaro Herrera
in place though, so that it plays nicely with older servers. Per discussion.
2006-05-26Fix findParents() in case of multiple levels to find.Teodor Sigaev
By Andreas Seltenreich <andreas+pg@gate450.dyndns.org>
2006-05-24* Add support NULL to GiST.Teodor Sigaev
* some refactoring and simplify code int gistutil.c and gist.c * now in some cases it can be called used-defined picksplit method for non-first column in index, but here is a place to do more. * small fix of docs related to support NULL.
2006-05-19Call MarkBufferDirty() before XLogInsert() during completion of insertTeodor Sigaev
2006-05-19Simplify gistSplit() and some refactoring related code.Teodor Sigaev
2006-05-19Rework completion of incomplete inserts. Now it writesTeodor Sigaev
WAL log during inserts.
2006-05-17Reduce size of critial section during vacuum full, criticalTeodor Sigaev
sections now isn't nested. All user-defined functions now is called outside critsections. Small improvements in WAL protocol. TODO: improve XLOG replay
2006-05-10Clean up code associated with updating pg_class statistics columnsTom Lane
(relpages/reltuples). To do this, create formal support in heapam.c for "overwrite" tuple updates (including xlog replay capability) and use that instead of the ad-hoc overwrites we'd been using in VACUUM and CREATE INDEX. Take the responsibility for updating stats during CREATE INDEX out of the individual index AMs, and do it where it belongs, in catalog/index.c. Aside from being more modular, this avoids having to update the same tuple twice in some paths through CREATE INDEX. It's probably not measurably faster, but for sure it's a lot cleaner than before.
2006-05-10Reduce size of critical section and remove call of user-defined functions inTeodor Sigaev
insertion and deletion, modify gistSplit() to do not use buffers. TODO: gistvacuumcleanup and XLOG
2006-05-08Rewrite btree vacuuming to fold the former bulkdelete and cleanup operationsTom Lane
into a single mostly-physical-order scan of the index. This requires some ticklish interlocking considerations, but should create no material performance impact on normal index operations (at least given the already-committed changes to make scans work a page at a time). VACUUM itself should get significantly faster in any index that's degenerated to a very nonlinear page order. Also, we save one pass over the index entirely, except in the case where there were no deletions to do and so only one pass happened anyway. Original patch by Heikki Linnakangas, rework by Tom Lane.
2006-05-07Rewrite btree index scans to work a page at a time in all cases (bothTom Lane
btgettuple and btgetmulti). This eliminates the problem of "re-finding" the exact stopping point, since the stopping point is effectively always a page boundary, and index items are never moved across pre-existing page boundaries. A small penalty is that the keys_are_unique optimization is effectively disabled (and, therefore, is removed in this patch), causing us to apply _bt_checkkeys() to at least one more tuple than necessary when looking up a unique key. However, the advantages for non-unique cases seem great enough to accept this tradeoff. Aside from simplifying and (sometimes) speeding up the indexscan code, this will allow us to reimplement btbulkdelete as a largely sequential scan instead of index-order traversal, thereby significantly reducing the cost of VACUUM. Those changes will come in a separate patch. Original patch by Heikki Linnakangas, rework by Tom Lane.