Discussing the low level issue of nbtree VACUUM and recovery conflicts
in btvacuumpage() now seems inappropriate. The same issue is discussed
in nbtxlog.h, as well as in a comment block above _bt_delitems_vacuum().
The comment block made more sense when it was part of a broader
discussion of nbtree VACUUM "pin scans". These were removed by commit
9f83468b.
_bt_delitems_delete() is no longer the high-level entry point used by
index tuple deletion driven by index tuples whose LP_DEAD bits are set
(now called "simple index tuple deletion"). It became a lower level
routine that's only called by _bt_delitems_delete_check() following
commit d168b66682.
Remove obsolete reference to lazy_vacuum()'s onecall argument. The
function argument was removed by commit 3499df0dee.
Also remove adjoining comment block that introduces the wraparound
failsafe concept. Talking about the failsafe here no longer makes
sense, since lazy_vacuum() (and related functions) are no longer the
only place where the failsafe might be triggered. This has been the
case since commit c242baa4a8 taught VACUUM to consider triggering the
failsafe mechanism during its initial heap scan.
Point out that index tuple deletion generally needs a latestRemovedXid
value for the deletion operation's WAL record. This is bound to be the
most expensive part of the whole deletion operation now that it takes
place up front, during original execution.
This was arguably an oversight in commit 558a9165e0, which moved the
work required to generate these values from index deletion REDO routines
to original execution of index deletion operations.
Checking that an offset number isn't past the end of a heap page's line
pointer array was just a defensive sanity check for HOT-chain traversal
code before commit 3c3b8a4b. It's etrictly necessary now, though. Add
comments that reference the issue to code in heapam that needs to get it
right.
Per suggestion from Alexander Lakhin.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f76a292c-9170-1aef-91a0-59d9443b99a3@gmail.com
It is not appropriate for deduplication to apply single value strategy
when triggered by a bottom-up index deletion pass. This wastes cycles
because later bottom-up deletion passes will overinterpret older
duplicate tuples that deduplication actually just skipped over "by
design". It also makes bottom-up deletion much less effective for low
cardinality indexes that happen to cross a meaningless "index has single
key value per leaf page" threshold.
To fix, slightly narrow the conditions under which deduplication's
single value strategy is considered. We already avoided the strategy
for a unique index, since our high level goal must just be to buy time
for VACUUM to run (not to buy space). We'll now also avoid it when we
just had a bottom-up pass that reported failure. The two cases share
the same high level goal, and already overlapped significantly, so this
approach is quite natural.
Oversight in commit d168b666, which added bottom-up index deletion.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WznaOvM+Gyj-JQ0X=JxoMDxctDTYjiEuETdAGbF5EUc3MA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 14-, where bottom-up deletion was introduced.
I noticed that commit 0bead9af48 left this flag undocumented in
XLogSetRecordFlags, which led me to discover that the flag doesn't
actually do what the one comment on it said it does. Improve the
situation by adding some more comments.
Backpatch to 14, where the aforementioned commit appears.
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202109212119.c3nhfp64t2ql@alvherre.pgsql
A broken HOT chain is not an unexpected condition, even when the offset
number points past the end of the page's line pointer array.
heap_prune_chain() does not (and never has) treated this condition as
unexpected, so derivative code in heap_index_delete_tuples() shouldn't
do so either.
Oversight in commit 4228817449.
The assertion can probably only fail on Postgres 14 and master. Earlier
releases don't have commit 3c3b8a4b, which taught VACUUM to truncate the
line pointer array of heap pages. Backpatch all the same, just to be
consistent.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reported-By: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17197-9438f31f46705182@postgresql.org
Backpatch: 12-, just like commit 4228817449.
Formerly, we sent signals for outgoing NOTIFY messages within
ProcessCompletedNotifies, which was also responsible for sending
relevant ones of those messages to our connected client. It therefore
had to run during the main-loop processing that occurs just before
going idle. This arrangement had two big disadvantages:
* Now that procedures allow intra-command COMMITs, it would be
useful to send NOTIFYs to other sessions immediately at COMMIT
(though, for reasons of wire-protocol stability, we still shouldn't
forward them to our client until end of command).
* Background processes such as replication workers would not send
NOTIFYs at all, since they never execute the client communication
loop. We've had requests to allow triggers running in replication
workers to send NOTIFYs, so that's a problem.
To fix these things, move transmission of outgoing NOTIFY signals
into AtCommit_Notify, where it will happen during CommitTransaction.
Also move the possible call of asyncQueueAdvanceTail there, to
ensure we don't bloat the async SLRU if a background worker sends
many NOTIFYs with no one listening.
We can also drop the call of asyncQueueReadAllNotifications,
allowing ProcessCompletedNotifies to go away entirely. That's
because commit 790026972 added a call of ProcessNotifyInterrupt
adjacent to PostgresMain's call of ProcessCompletedNotifies,
and that does its own call of asyncQueueReadAllNotifications,
meaning that we were uselessly doing two such calls (inside two
separate transactions) whenever inbound notify signals coincided
with an outbound notify. We need only set notifyInterruptPending
to ensure that ProcessNotifyInterrupt runs, and we're done.
The existing documentation suggests that custom background workers
should call ProcessCompletedNotifies if they want to send NOTIFY
messages. To avoid an ABI break in the back branches, reduce it
to an empty routine rather than removing it entirely. Removal
will occur in v15.
Although the problems mentioned above have existed for awhile,
I don't feel comfortable back-patching this any further than v13.
There was quite a bit of churn in adjacent code between 12 and 13.
At minimum we'd have to also backpatch 51004c717, and a good deal
of other adjustment would also be needed, so the benefit-to-risk
ratio doesn't look attractive.
Per bug #15293 from Michael Powers (and similar gripes from others).
Artur Zakirov and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/153243441449.1404.2274116228506175596@wrigleys.postgresql.org
All the code paths simplified here were already using a boolean or used
an expression that led to zero or one, making the extra bits
unnecessary.
Author: Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Michael Paquier, Peter Smith
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210428182936.GE27406@telsasoft.com
Attempting to make hashfloat4() look as much as possible like
hashfloat8(), I'd figured I could replace NaNs with get_float4_nan()
before widening to float8. However, results from protosciurus
and topminnow show that on some platforms that produces a different
bit-pattern from get_float8_nan(), breaking the intent of ce773f230.
Rearrange so that we use the result of get_float8_nan() for all NaN
cases. As before, back-patch.
The IEEE 754 standard allows a wide variety of bit patterns for NaNs,
of which at least two ("NaN" and "-NaN") are pretty easy to produce
from SQL on most machines. This is problematic because our btree
comparison functions deem all NaNs to be equal, but our float hash
functions know nothing about NaNs and will happily produce varying
hash codes for them. That causes unexpected results from queries
that hash a column containing different NaN values. It could also
produce unexpected lookup failures when using a hash index on a
float column, i.e. "WHERE x = 'NaN'" will not find all the rows
it should.
To fix, special-case NaN in the float hash functions, not too much
unlike the existing special case that forces zero and minus zero
to hash the same. I arranged for the most vanilla sort of NaN
(that coming from the C99 NAN constant) to still have the same
hash code as before, to reduce the risk to existing hash indexes.
I dithered about whether to back-patch this into stable branches,
but ultimately decided to do so. It's a clear improvement for
queries that hash internally. If there is anybody who has -NaN
in a hash index, they'd be well advised to re-index after applying
this patch ... but the misbehavior if they don't will not be much
worse than the misbehavior they had before.
Per bug #17172 from Ma Liangzhu.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17172-7505bea9e04e230f@postgresql.org
It doesn't make any sense to report this information, since VACUUM
VERBOSE reports on heap relation truncation directly. This was an
oversight in commit 7ab96cf6, which made VACUUM VERBOSE output a little
more consistent with nearby autovacuum-specific log output. Adjust
comments that describe how this is supposed to work in passing.
Also bring truncation-related VACUUM VERBOSE output in line with the
convention established for VACUUM VERBOSE output by commit f4f4a649.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Backpatch: 14-, where VACUUM VERBOSE's output changed.
The field hasn't been used since commit 3d351d91, which redefined
pg_class.reltuples to be -1 before the first VACUUM or ANALYZE.
Also rename a local variable of the same name ("old_rel_pages"). This is
used by relation truncation to represent the original relation size at
the start of the ongoing VACUUM operation. Rename it to orig_rel_pages,
since that's a lot clearer. (This name matches similar nearby code.)
Most data-corruption reports mention the location of the problem, but
this one failed to. Add it.
Backpatch all the way back. In 12 and older, also assign the
ERRCODE_DATA_CORRUPTED error code as was done in commit fd6ec93bf8 for
13 and later.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202108191637.oqyzrdtnheir@alvherre.pgsql
Somehow, spgist overlooked the need to call pgstat_count_index_scan().
Hence, pg_stat_all_indexes.idx_scan and equivalent columns never
became nonzero for an SP-GiST index, although the related per-tuple
counters worked fine.
This fix works a bit differently from other index AMs, in that the
counter increment occurs in spgrescan not spggettuple/spggetbitmap.
It looks like this won't make the user-visible semantics noticeably
different, so I won't go to the trouble of introducing an is-this-
the-first-call flag just to make the counter bumps happen in the
same places.
Per bug #17163 from Christian Quest. Back-patch to all supported
versions.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17163-b8c5cc88322a5e92@postgresql.org
Adjust track_io_timing related logging code added by commit 94d13d474d.
Make it consistent with other nearby autovacuum and autoanalyze logging
code by removing logic that suppressed zero millisecond outputs.
log_autovacuum_min_duration log output now reliably shows "read:" and
"write:" millisecond-based values in its report (when track_io_timing is
enabled).
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WznW0FNxSVQMSRazAMYNfZ6DR_gr5WE78hc6E1CBkkJpzw@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 14-, where the track_io_timing logging was introduced.
This order seems more natural. It starts with details that are
particular to heap and index data structures, and ends with system-level
costs incurred during the autovacuum worker's VACUUM/ANALYZE operation.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkzxK6ahA9xxsOftRtBX_R0swuHZsvo4QUbak1Bz7hb7Q@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 14-, which enhanced the log output in various ways.
This was arguably a minor oversight in commit b4af70cb, which cleaned up
the function signatures of functions that modify IndexBulkDeleteResult
variables.
Pengchengliu reported an assertion failure in a parallel woker while
performing a parallel scan using an overflowed snapshot. The proximate
cause is that TransactionXmin was set to an incorrect value. The
underlying cause is incorrect snapshot handling in parallel.c.
In particular, InitializeParallelDSM() was unconditionally calling
GetTransactionSnapshot(), because I (rhaas) mistakenly thought that
was always retrieving an existing snapshot whereas, at isolation
levels less than REPEATABLE READ, it's actually taking a new one. So
instead do this only at higher isolation levels where there actually
is a single snapshot for the whole transaction.
By itself, this is not a sufficient fix, because we still need to
guarantee that TransactionXmin gets set properly in the workers. The
easiest way to do that seems to be to install the leader's active
snapshot as the transaction snapshot if the leader did not serialize a
transaction snapshot. This doesn't affect the results of future
GetTrasnactionSnapshot() calls since those have to take a new snapshot
anyway; what we care about is the side effect of setting TransactionXmin.
Report by Pengchengliu. Patch by Greg Nancarrow, except for some comment
text which I supplied.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/002f01d748ac$eaa781a0$bff684e0$@tju.edu.cn
WAL records may span multiple segments, but XLogWrite() does not
wait for the entire record to be written out to disk before
creating archive status files. Instead, as soon as the last WAL page of
the segment is written, the archive status file is created, and the
archiver may process it. If PostgreSQL crashes before it is able to
write and flush the rest of the record (in the next WAL segment), the
wrong version of the first segment file lingers in the archive, which
causes operations such as point-in-time restores to fail.
To fix this, keep track of records that span across segments and ensure
that segments are only marked ready-for-archival once such records have
been completely written to disk.
This has always been wrong, so backpatch all the way back.
Author: Nathan Bossart <bossartn@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ryo Matsumura <matsumura.ryo@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CBDDFA01-6E40-46BB-9F98-9340F4379505@amazon.com
This reverts the following commits:
1b5617eb84 Describe (auto-)analyze behavior for partitioned tables
0e69f705cc Set pg_class.reltuples for partitioned tables
41badeaba8 Document ANALYZE storage parameters for partitioned tables
0827e8af70 autovacuum: handle analyze for partitioned tables
There are efficiency issues in this code when handling databases with
large numbers of partitions, and it doesn't look like there isn't any
trivial way to handle those. There are some other issues as well. It's
now too late in the cycle for nontrivial fixes, so we'll have to let
Postgres 14 users continue to manually deal with ANALYZE their
partitioned tables, and hopefully we can fix the issues for Postgres 15.
I kept [most of] be280cdad2 ("Don't reset relhasindex for partitioned
tables on ANALYZE") because while we added it due to 0827e8af70, it is
a good bugfix in its own right, since it affects manual analyze as well
as autovacuum-induced analyze, and there's no reason to revert it.
I retained the addition of relkind 'p' to tables included by
pg_stat_user_tables, because reverting that would require a catversion
bump.
Also, in pg14 only, I keep a struct member that was added to
PgStat_TabStatEntry to avoid breaking compatibility with existing stat
files.
Backpatch to 14.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210722205458.f2bug3z6qzxzpx2s@alap3.anarazel.de
During a VACUUM or CLUSTER command, the initial output emits a
fully qualified relation path with namespace. The post-action
errmsg only emitted the relation name however, which may lead
to hard to parse output when using multiple jobs with vacuumdb
as the output from different jobs may be interleaved. Include
the full path in the post-action errmsg to be consistent with
the initial errmsg.
Author: Mike Fiedler <miketheman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMerE0oz+8G-aORZL_BJcPxnBqewZAvND4bSUysjz+r-oT1BxQ@mail.gmail.com
This commit ensures that the wait interval in the replay delay loop
waiting for an amount of time defined by recovery_min_apply_delay is
correctly handled on reload, recalculating the delay if this GUC value
is updated, based on the timestamp of the commit record being replayed.
The previous behavior would be problematic for example with replay
still waiting even if the delay got reduced or just cancelled. If the
apply delay was increased to a larger value, the wait would have just
respected the old value set, finishing earlier.
Author: Soumyadeep Chakraborty, Ashwin Agrawal
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAE-ML+93zfr-HLN8OuxF0BjpWJ17O5dv1eMvSE5jsj9jpnAXZA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.6
This is a step toward storing stats in dynamic shared memory. As dynamic
shared memory segments are detached from just after before_shmem_exit()
callbacks are processed, but before on_shmem_exit() callbacks are, no stats
can be collected after before_shmem_exit() callbacks have been processed.
Parallel worker shutdown can cause stats to be emitted during DSM detach
callbacks, e.g. for SharedFileSet (which closes its files, which can causes
fd.c to emit stats about temporary files). Therefore parallel worker shutdown
needs to complete during the processing of before_shmem_exit callbacks.
One might think this problem could instead be solved by carefully ordering the
attaching to DSM segments, so that the pgstats segments get detached from
later than the parallel query ones. That turns out to not work because the
stats hash might need to grow which can cause new segments to be
allocated, which then will be detached from earlier.
There are two code changes:
First, call ParallelWorkerShutdown() via before_shmem_exit. That's a good idea
on its own, because other shutdown callbacks like ShutdownPostgres and
ShutdownAuxiliaryProcess are called via before_*.
Second, explicitly detach from the parallel query DSM segment, thereby
ensuring all stats are emitted during ParallelWorkerShutdown().
There are nicer solutions to these problems, but it's not obvious which of
those solutions is the correct one. As the shared memory stats work already is
a huge amount of work...
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210405092914.mmxqe7j56lsjfsej@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210803023612.iziacxk5syn2r4ut@alap3.anarazel.de
These have been unrelated since bgwriter and checkpointer were split into two
processes in 806a2aee37. As there several pending patches (shared memory
stats, extending the set of tracked IO / buffer statistics) that are made a
bit more awkward by the grouping, split them. Done separately to make
reviewing easier.
This does *not* change the contents of pg_stat_bgwriter or move fields out of
bgwriter/checkpointer stats that arguably do not belong in either. However
pgstat_fetch_global() was renamed and split into
pgstat_fetch_stat_checkpointer() and pgstat_fetch_stat_bgwriter().
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210405092914.mmxqe7j56lsjfsej@alap3.anarazel.de
Oversight in commit 3499df0d, which generalized the reloption as a way
of giving users a way to consistently avoid VACUUM's index bypass
optimization.
Per off-list report from Nikolay Shaplov.
Backpatch: 14-, where index cleanup reloption was extended.
Start up the checkpointer and bgwriter during crash recovery (except in
--single mode), as we do for replication. This wasn't done back in
commit cdd46c76 out of caution. Now it seems like a better idea to make
the environment as similar as possible in both cases. There may also be
some performance advantages.
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>
Tested-by: Jakub Wartak <Jakub.Wartak@tomtom.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJ8NRsqgkZEnsnRc2MFROBV-jCnacbYvtpptK2A9YYp9Q%40mail.gmail.com
They are used in code that runs both during normal operation and during
WAL replay, and needs to behave differently during replay. Move them to
xlogutils.c, because that's where we have other helper functions used by
redo routines.
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/b3b71061-4919-e882-4857-27e370ab134a%40iki.fi
It should always be the case that the last checkpoint record is still
readable, because otherwise, a crash would leave us in a situation
from which we can't recover. Therefore the test removed by this patch
should always succeed. For it to fail, either there has to be a serious
bug in the code someplace, or the user has to be manually modifying
pg_wal while crash recovery is running. If it's the first one, we
should fix the bug. If it's the second one, they should stop, or
anyway they're doing so at their own risk. In neither case does
a full checkpoint instead of an end-of-recovery record seem like a
clear winner. Furthermore, rarely-taken code paths are particularly
vulnerable to bugs, so let's simplify by getting rid of this one.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYmw==TOJ6EzYb_vcjyS09NkzrVKSyBKUUyo1zBEaJASA@mail.gmail.com
CheckpointLock was removed in commit d18e75664a, and commit ce197e91d0
updated a leftover comment in CreateCheckPoint, but there was another
copy of it in CreateRestartPoint still.
Buildfarm shows that this test has a further failure mode when a
checkpoint starts earlier than expected, so we detect a "checkpoint
completed" line that's not the one we want. Change the config to try
and prevent this.
Per buildfarm
While at it, update one comment that was forgotten in commit
d18e75664a.
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210729.162038.534808353849568395.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
If a file is truncated, we must update minRecoveryPoint. Once a file is
truncated, there's no going back; it would not be safe to stop recovery
at a point earlier than that anymore.
Commit 7bffc9b7bf changed xact_redo_commit() so that it updates
minRecoveryPoint on truncation, but forgot to change xact_redo_abort().
Back-patch to all supported versions.
Reported-by: mengjuan.cmj@alibaba-inc.com
Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b029fce3-4fac-4265-968e-16f36ff4d075.mengjuan.cmj@alibaba-inc.com
Commit 2c03216d83 changed XLOG_FPI_FOR_HINT records so that they always
included full-page images even when full_page_writes was disabled. However,
in this setting, they don't need to do that because hint bit updates don't
need to be protected from torn writes.
Therefore, this commit makes XLOG_FPI_FOR_HINT records honor full_page_writes
setting. That is, XLOG_FPI_FOR_HINT records may include no full-page images
if full_page_writes is disabled, and WAL replay of them does nothing.
Reported-by: Zhang Wenjie
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/tencent_60F11973A111EED97A8596FFECC4A91ED405@qq.com
When some slots are invalidated due to the max_slot_wal_keep_size limit,
the old segment horizon should move forward to stay within the limit.
However, in commit c655077639 we forgot to call KeepLogSeg again to
recompute the horizon after invalidating replication slots. In cases
where other slots remained, the limits would be recomputed eventually
for other reasons, but if all slots were invalidated, the limits would
not move at all afterwards. Repair.
Backpatch to 13 where the feature was introduced.
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Marcin Krupowicz <mk@071.ovh>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17103-004130e8f27782c9@postgresql.org
As of v14, pg_depend contains almost 7000 "pin" entries recording
the OIDs of built-in objects. This is a fair amount of bloat for
every database, and it adds time to pg_depend lookups as well as
initdb. We can get rid of all of those entries in favor of an OID
range check, i.e. "OIDs below FirstUnpinnedObjectId are pinned".
(template1 and the public schema are exceptions. Those exceptions
are now wired into IsPinnedObject() instead of initdb's code for
filling pg_depend, but it's the same amount of cruft either way.)
The contents of pg_shdepend are modified likewise.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3737988.1618451008@sss.pgh.pa.us
To add support for streaming transactions at prepare time into the
built-in logical replication, we need to do the following things:
* Modify the output plugin (pgoutput) to implement the new two-phase API
callbacks, by leveraging the extended replication protocol.
* Modify the replication apply worker, to properly handle two-phase
transactions by replaying them on prepare.
* Add a new SUBSCRIPTION option "two_phase" to allow users to enable
two-phase transactions. We enable the two_phase once the initial data sync
is over.
We however must explicitly disable replication of two-phase transactions
during replication slot creation, even if the plugin supports it. We
don't need to replicate the changes accumulated during this phase,
and moreover, we don't have a replication connection open so we don't know
where to send the data anyway.
The streaming option is not allowed with this new two_phase option. This
can be done as a separate patch.
We don't allow to toggle two_phase option of a subscription because it can
lead to an inconsistent replica. For the same reason, we don't allow to
refresh the publication once the two_phase is enabled for a subscription
unless copy_data option is false.
Author: Peter Smith, Ajin Cherian and Amit Kapila based on previous work by Nikhil Sontakke and Stas Kelvich
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila, Sawada Masahiko, Vignesh C, Dilip Kumar, Takamichi Osumi, Greg Nancarrow
Tested-By: Haiying Tang
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/02DA5F5E-CECE-4D9C-8B4B-418077E2C010@postgrespro.ru
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1+opiV4aFTmWWUF9h_32=HfPOW9vZASHarT0UA5oBrtGw@mail.gmail.com
The idea behind this patch is to design out bugs like the one fixed
by commit 9d523119f. Previously, once one did RelationOpenSmgr(rel),
it was considered okay to access rel->rd_smgr directly for some
not-very-clear interval. But since that pointer will be cleared by
relcache flushes, we had bugs arising from overreliance on a previous
RelationOpenSmgr call still being effective.
Now, very little code except that in rel.h and relcache.c should ever
touch the rd_smgr field directly. The normal coding rule is to use
RelationGetSmgr(rel) and not expect the result to be valid for longer
than one smgr function call. There are a couple of places where using
the function every single time seemed like overkill, but they are now
annotated with large warning comments.
Amul Sul, after an idea of mine.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANiYTQsU7yMFpQYnv=BrcRVqK_3U3mtAzAsJCaqtzsDHfsUbdQ@mail.gmail.com
Peter Geoghegan
Alvaro Herrera
Tom Lane
Michael Paquier
Peter Eisentraut
Robert Haas
Daniel Gustafsson
John Naylor
Andres Freund
Thomas Munro
Heikki Linnakangas
Fujii Masao
Amit Kapila