Force VACUUM to recalculate oldestXmin even when we haven't changed our

own database's datfrozenxid, if the current value is old enough to be
forcing autovacuums or warning messages.  This ensures that a bogus
value is replaced as soon as possible.  Per a comment from Heikki.
This commit is contained in:
Tom Lane 2009-09-01 04:46:49 +00:00
parent 14f445fccf
commit 794e3e81a0
3 changed files with 22 additions and 12 deletions

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@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
* Copyright (c) 2000-2009, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
*
* IDENTIFICATION
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/access/transam/varsup.c,v 1.85 2009/08/31 02:23:21 tgl Exp $
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/access/transam/varsup.c,v 1.86 2009/09/01 04:46:49 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@ -372,32 +372,41 @@ SetTransactionIdLimit(TransactionId oldest_datfrozenxid, Oid oldest_datoid)
/*
* TransactionIdLimitIsValid -- is the shared XID wrap-limit data sane?
* ForceTransactionIdLimitUpdate -- does the XID wrap-limit data need updating?
*
* We primarily check whether oldestXidDB is valid. The cases we have in
* mind are that that database was dropped, or the field was reset to zero
* by pg_resetxlog. In either case we should force recalculation of the
* wrap limit. In future we might add some more sanity checks here.
* wrap limit. Also do it if oldestXid is old enough to be forcing
* autovacuums or other actions; this ensures we update our state as soon
* as possible once extra overhead is being incurred.
*/
bool
TransactionIdLimitIsValid(void)
ForceTransactionIdLimitUpdate(void)
{
TransactionId nextXid;
TransactionId xidVacLimit;
TransactionId oldestXid;
Oid oldestXidDB;
/* Locking is probably not really necessary, but let's be careful */
LWLockAcquire(XidGenLock, LW_SHARED);
nextXid = ShmemVariableCache->nextXid;
xidVacLimit = ShmemVariableCache->xidVacLimit;
oldestXid = ShmemVariableCache->oldestXid;
oldestXidDB = ShmemVariableCache->oldestXidDB;
LWLockRelease(XidGenLock);
if (!TransactionIdIsNormal(oldestXid))
return false; /* shouldn't happen, but just in case */
return true; /* shouldn't happen, but just in case */
if (TransactionIdFollowsOrEquals(nextXid, xidVacLimit) &&
TransactionIdIsValid(xidVacLimit))
return true; /* past VacLimit, don't delay updating */
if (!SearchSysCacheExists(DATABASEOID,
ObjectIdGetDatum(oldestXidDB),
0, 0, 0))
return false; /* could happen, per comment above */
return true;
return true; /* could happen, per comments above */
return false;
}

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@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
*
*
* IDENTIFICATION
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/commands/vacuum.c,v 1.392 2009/09/01 02:54:51 alvherre Exp $
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/commands/vacuum.c,v 1.393 2009/09/01 04:46:49 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@ -893,9 +893,10 @@ vac_update_datfrozenxid(void)
/*
* If we were able to advance datfrozenxid, see if we can truncate pg_clog.
* Also do it if the shared XID-wrap-limit info is stale.
* Also do it if the shared XID-wrap-limit info is stale, since this
* action will update that too.
*/
if (dirty || !TransactionIdLimitIsValid())
if (dirty || ForceTransactionIdLimitUpdate())
vac_truncate_clog(newFrozenXid);
}

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@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
* Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2009, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
* Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
*
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/include/access/transam.h,v 1.69 2009/08/31 02:23:23 tgl Exp $
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/include/access/transam.h,v 1.70 2009/09/01 04:46:49 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ extern TransactionId GetNewTransactionId(bool isSubXact);
extern TransactionId ReadNewTransactionId(void);
extern void SetTransactionIdLimit(TransactionId oldest_datfrozenxid,
Oid oldest_datoid);
extern bool TransactionIdLimitIsValid(void);
extern bool ForceTransactionIdLimitUpdate(void);
extern Oid GetNewObjectId(void);
#endif /* TRAMSAM_H */