Repair VACUUM FULL bug introduced by HOT patch: the original way of

calculating a page's initial free space was fine, and should not have been
"improved" by letting PageGetHeapFreeSpace do it.  VACUUM FULL is going to
reclaim LP_DEAD line pointers later, so there is no need for a guard
against the page being too full of line pointers, and having one risks
rejecting pages that are perfectly good move destinations.

This also exposed a second bug, which is that the empty_end_pages logic
assumed that any page with no live tuples would get entered into the
fraged_pages list automatically (by virtue of having more free space than
the threshold in the do_frag calculation).  This assumption certainly
seems risky when a low fillfactor has been chosen, and even without
tunable fillfactor I think it could conceivably fail on a page with many
unused line pointers.  So fix the code to force do_frag true when notup
is true, and patch this part of the fix all the way back.

Per report from Tomas Szepe.
This commit is contained in:
Tom Lane 2008-02-11 19:14:30 +00:00
parent 082aca9ec2
commit c931c07124
1 changed files with 26 additions and 7 deletions

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@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
*
*
* IDENTIFICATION
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/commands/vacuum.c,v 1.363 2008/01/03 21:23:15 tgl Exp $
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/commands/vacuum.c,v 1.364 2008/02/11 19:14:30 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@ -1659,12 +1659,18 @@ scan_heap(VRelStats *vacrelstats, Relation onerel,
free_space += vacpage->free;
/*
* Add the page to fraged_pages if it has a useful amount of free
* space. "Useful" means enough for a minimal-sized tuple. But we
* don't know that accurately near the start of the relation, so add
* pages unconditionally if they have >= BLCKSZ/10 free space.
* Add the page to vacuum_pages if it requires reaping, and add it to
* fraged_pages if it has a useful amount of free space. "Useful"
* means enough for a minimal-sized tuple. But we don't know that
* accurately near the start of the relation, so add pages
* unconditionally if they have >= BLCKSZ/10 free space. Also
* forcibly add pages with no live tuples, to avoid confusing the
* empty_end_pages logic. (In the presence of unreasonably small
* fillfactor, it seems possible that such pages might not pass
* the free-space test, but they had better be in the list anyway.)
*/
do_frag = (vacpage->free >= min_tlen || vacpage->free >= BLCKSZ / 10);
do_frag = (vacpage->free >= min_tlen || vacpage->free >= BLCKSZ / 10 ||
notup);
if (do_reap || do_frag)
{
@ -1679,6 +1685,7 @@ scan_heap(VRelStats *vacrelstats, Relation onerel,
/*
* Include the page in empty_end_pages if it will be empty after
* vacuuming; this is to keep us from using it as a move destination.
* Note that such pages are guaranteed to be in fraged_pages.
*/
if (notup)
{
@ -3725,7 +3732,19 @@ enough_space(VacPage vacpage, Size len)
static Size
PageGetFreeSpaceWithFillFactor(Relation relation, Page page)
{
Size freespace = PageGetHeapFreeSpace(page);
/*
* It is correct to use PageGetExactFreeSpace() here, *not*
* PageGetHeapFreeSpace(). This is because (a) we do our own, exact
* accounting for whether line pointers must be added, and (b) we will
* recycle any LP_DEAD line pointers before starting to add rows to a
* page, but that may not have happened yet at the time this function is
* applied to a page, which means PageGetHeapFreeSpace()'s protection
* against too many line pointers on a page could fire incorrectly. We do
* not need that protection here: since VACUUM FULL always recycles all
* dead line pointers first, it'd be physically impossible to insert more
* than MaxHeapTuplesPerPage tuples anyway.
*/
Size freespace = PageGetExactFreeSpace(page);
Size targetfree;
targetfree = RelationGetTargetPageFreeSpace(relation,