There used to be a lot of different *Type and *Kind symbol groups to
address objects within different commands, most of which have been
replaced by ObjectType, starting with
b256f24264. But this conversion was never
done for the ACL commands until now.
This change ends up being just a plain replacement of the types and
symbols, without any code restructuring needed, except deleting some now
redundant code.
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
When CREATE INDEX is run on a partitioned table, create catalog entries
for an index on the partitioned table (which is just a placeholder since
the table proper has no data of its own), and recurse to create actual
indexes on the existing partitions; create them in future partitions
also.
As a convenience gadget, if the new index definition matches some
existing index in partitions, these are picked up and used instead of
creating new ones. Whichever way these indexes come about, they become
attached to the index on the parent table and are dropped alongside it,
and cannot be dropped on isolation unless they are detached first.
To support pg_dump'ing these indexes, add commands
CREATE INDEX ON ONLY <table>
(which creates the index on the parent partitioned table, without
recursing) and
ALTER INDEX ATTACH PARTITION
(which is used after the indexes have been created individually on each
partition, to attach them to the parent index). These reconstruct prior
database state exactly.
Reviewed-by: (in alphabetical order) Peter Eisentraut, Robert Haas, Amit
Langote, Jesper Pedersen, Simon Riggs, David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171113170646.gzweigyrgg6pwsg4@alvherre.pgsql
Ability to advance both physical and logical replication slots using a
new user function pg_replication_slot_advance().
For logical advance that means records are consumed as fast as possible
and changes are not given to output plugin for sending. Makes 2nd phase
(after we reached SNAPBUILD_FULL_SNAPSHOT) of replication slot creation
faster, especially when there are big transactions as the reorder buffer
does not have to deal with data changes and does not have to spill to
disk.
Author: Petr Jelinek
Reviewed-by: Simon Riggs
The creates a single function JsonEncodeDateTime which will format these
data types in an efficient and consistent manner. This will be all the
more important when we come to jsonpath so we don't have to implement yet
more code doing the same thing in two more places.
This also extends the code to handle time and timetz types which were
not previously handled specially. This requires exposing the time2tm and
timetz2tm functions.
Patch from Nikita Glukhov
Add the ability to label a column's default value in the catalog header,
and implement this for pg_attribute. A new function in Catalog.pm is
used to fill in a tuple with defaults. The build process will complain
loudly if a catalog entry is incomplete,
Commit 8137f2c323 labeled variable length columns for the C preprocessor.
Expose that label to genbki.pl so we can exclude those columns from schema
macros in a general fashion. Also, format schema macro entries according
to their types.
This means slightly less code maintenance, but more importantly it's a
proving ground for mechanisms intended to be used in later commits.
While at it, I (Álvaro) couldn't resist making some changes in
genbki.pl: rename some functions to actually indicate their purpose
instead of actively misleading onlookers; and don't iterate on the whole
of pg_type to find the entry for each catalog row, using a hash instead
of an array.
Author: John Naylor, some changes by Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJVSVGVJHwD8sfDfZW9TbCHWKf=C1YDRM-rF=2JenRU_y+VcFg@mail.gmail.com
This should have been done in commit 18ce3a4ab, which added that parameter
to ExplainOneQuery, but it was overlooked. This makes it impossible for
a user of the hook to pass the queryEnv down to ExplainOnePlan.
It's too late to change this API in v10, I suppose, but fortunately
passing NULL to ExplainOnePlan will work in nearly all interesting
cases in v10. That might not be true forever, so we'd better fix it.
Tatsuro Yamada, reviewed by Thomas Munro
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/890e8dd9-c1c7-a422-6892-874f5eaee048@lab.ntt.co.jp
Previously aggregate transition and combination functions were invoked
by special case code in nodeAgg.c, evaluating input and filters
separately using the expression evaluation machinery. That turns out
to not be great for performance for several reasons:
- repeated expression evaluations have some cost
- the transition functions invocations are poorly predicted, as
commonly there are multiple aggregates in a query, resulting in the
same call-stack invoking different functions.
- filter and input computation had to be done separately
- the special case code made it hard to implement JITing of the whole
transition function invocation
Address this by building one large expression that computes input,
evaluates filters, and invokes transition functions.
This leads to moderate speedups in queries bottlenecked by aggregate
computations, and enables large speedups for similar cases once JITing
is done.
There's potential for further improvement:
- It'd be nice if we could simplify the somewhat expensive
aggstate->all_pergroups lookups.
- right now there's still an advance_transition_function invocation in
nodeAgg.c, leading to some code duplication.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170901064131.tazjxwus3k2w3ybh@alap3.anarazel.de
After having gotten rid of PortalGetHeapMemory(), there seems little
reason to keep one Portal access macro around that offers no actual
abstraction and isn't consistently used anyway.
Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Rename PortalMemory to TopPortalContext, to avoid confusion with
PortalContext and align naming with similar top-level memory contexts.
Rename PortalData's "heap" field to portalContext. The "heap" naming
seems quite antiquated and confusing. Also get rid of the
PortalGetHeapMemory() macro and access the field directly, which we do
for other portal fields, so this abstraction doesn't buy anything.
Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Commit ab7271677 introduced code that attempts to order the child
scans of a Parallel Append node in a way that will minimize execution
time, based on total cost and startup cost. However, it failed to
think hard about what to do when estimated costs are exactly equal;
a case that's particularly likely to occur when comparing on startup
cost. In such a case the ordering of the child paths would be left
to the whims of qsort, an algorithm that isn't even stable.
We can improve matters by applying the rule used elsewhere in the
planner: if total costs are equal, sort on startup cost, and
vice versa. When both cost estimates are exactly equal, rather
than letting qsort do something unpredictable, sort based on the
child paths' relids, which should typically result in sorting in
inheritance order. (The latter provision requires inventing a
qsort-style comparator for bitmapsets, but maybe we'll have use
for that for other reasons in future.)
This results in a few plan changes in the select_parallel test,
but those all look more reasonable than before, when the actual
underlying cost numbers are taken into account.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4944.1515446989@sss.pgh.pa.us
The original coding here insisted that callers manually cancel any prepared
sleep for one condition variable before starting a sleep on another one.
While that's not a huge burden today, it seems like a gotcha that will bite
us in future if the use of condition variables increases; anything we can
do to make the use of this API simpler and more robust is attractive.
Hence, allow these functions to automatically switch their attention to
a different CV when required. This is safe for the same reason it was OK
for commit aced5a92b to let a broadcast operation cancel any prepared CV
sleep: whenever we return to the other test-and-sleep loop, we will
automatically re-prepare that CV, paying at most an extra test of that
loop's exit condition.
Back-patch to v10 where condition variables were introduced. Ordinarily
we would probably not back-patch a change like this, but since it does not
invalidate any coding pattern that was legal before, it seems safe enough.
Furthermore, there's an open bug in replorigin_drop() for which the
simplest fix requires this. Even if we chose to fix that in some more
complicated way, the hazard would remain that we might back-patch some
other bug fix that requires this behavior.
Patch by me, reviewed by Thomas Munro.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2437.1515368316@sss.pgh.pa.us
Previously, although the initial state of a proclist_node is expected
to be next == prev == 0, proclist_delete_offset would reset nodes to
next == prev == INVALID_PGPROCNO when removing them from a list.
This is the same state that a node in a singleton list has, so that
it's impossible to distinguish not-in-a-list from in-a-list. Change
proclist_delete_offset to reset removed nodes to next == prev == 0,
making it possible to distinguish those cases, and then add Asserts
to the list add and delete functions that the supplied node isn't
or is in a list at entry. Also tighten assertions about the node
being in the particular list (not some other one) where it is possible
to check that in O(1) time.
In ConditionVariablePrepareToSleep, since we don't expect the process's
cvWaitLink to already be in a list, remove the more-or-less-useless
proclist_contains check; we'd rather have proclist_push_tail's new
assertion fire if that happens.
Improve various comments related to proclists, too.
Patch by me, reviewed by Thomas Munro. This isn't back-patchable, since
there could theoretically be inlined copies of proclist_delete_offset in
third-party modules. But it's only improving debuggability anyway.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0NWKehYw7NDoUSf8juuKOPRnCyY3vuaSvhrEWsOTAa3w@mail.gmail.com
In the wake of commit aced5a92b, the semantics of these results are
a bit squishy: we can tell whether we signaled some other process(es),
but we do not know which ones were real waiters versus mere sentinels
for ConditionVariableBroadcast operations. It does not help much that
ConditionVariableBroadcast will attempt to pass on the signal to the
next real waiter, because (a) there might not be one, and (b) that will
only happen awhile later, anyway. So these results could overstate how
much effect the calls really had.
However, no existing caller of either function pays any attention to its
result value, so it seems reasonable to just define that as a required
property of a correct algorithm. To encourage correctness and save some
tiny number of cycles, change both functions to return void.
Patch by me, per an observation by Thomas Munro. No back-patch, since
if any third parties happen to be using these functions, they might not
appreciate an API break in a minor release.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0NWKehYw7NDoUSf8juuKOPRnCyY3vuaSvhrEWsOTAa3w@mail.gmail.com
At present, we always raise an ERROR if the partition constraint
is violated, but a pending patch for UPDATE tuple routing will
consider instead moving the tuple to the correct partition.
Refactor to make that simpler.
Amit Khandekar, reviewed by Amit Langote, David Rowley, and me.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAJ3gD9cue54GbEzfV-61nyGpijvjZgCcghvLsB0_nL8Nm8HzCA@mail.gmail.com
Logical decoding's reorderbuffer.c may spill transaction files to disk
when transactions are large. These are supposed to be removed when they
become "too old" by xid; but file removal requires the boundary LSNs of
the transaction to be known. The final_lsn is only set when we see the
commit or abort record for the transaction, but nothing sets the value
for transactions that crash, so the removal code misbehaves -- in
assertion-enabled builds, it crashes by a failed assertion.
To fix, modify the final_lsn of transactions that don't have a value
set, to the LSN of the very latest change in the transaction. This
causes the spilled files to be removed appropriately.
Author: Atsushi Torikoshi
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro HORIGUCHI, Craig Ringer, Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/54e4e488-186b-a056-6628-50628e4e4ebc@lab.ntt.co.jp
It seems we can't easily work around the lack of
X509_get_signature_nid(), so revert the previous attempts and just
disable the tls-server-end-point feature if we don't have it.
Generalize is_partition_attr to has_partition_attrs and make it
accessible from outside tablecmds.c. Change map_partition_varattnos
to clarify that it can be used for mapping between any two relations
in a partitioning hierarchy, not just parent -> child.
Amit Khandekar, reviewed by Amit Langote, David Rowley, and me.
Some comment changes by me.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAJ3gD9fWfxgKC+PfJZF3hkgAcNOy-LpfPxVYitDEXKHjeieWQQ@mail.gmail.com
Instead of having ExecSetupPartitionTupleRouting return multiple out
parameters, have it return a pointer to a structure containing all of
those different things. Also, provide and use a cleanup function,
ExecCleanupTupleRouting, instead of cleaning up all of the resources
allocated by ExecSetupPartitionTupleRouting individually.
Amit Khandekar, reviewed by Amit Langote, David Rowley, and me
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAJ3gD9fWfxgKC+PfJZF3hkgAcNOy-LpfPxVYitDEXKHjeieWQQ@mail.gmail.com
This adds a second standard channel binding type for SCRAM. It is
mainly intended for third-party clients that cannot implement
tls-unique, for example JDBC.
Author: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
As things stand now, channel binding data is fetched from OpenSSL and
saved into the SCRAM exchange context for any SSL connection attempted
for a SCRAM authentication, resulting in data fetched but not used if no
channel binding is used or if a different channel binding type is used
than what the data is here for.
Refactor the code in such a way that binding data is fetched from the
SSL stack only when a specific channel binding is used for both the
frontend and the backend. In order to achieve that, save the libpq
connection context directly in the SCRAM exchange state, and add a
dependency to SSL in the low-level SCRAM routines.
This makes the interface in charge of initializing the SCRAM context
cleaner as all its data comes from either PGconn* (for frontend) or
Port* (for the backend).
Author: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
- Remove unnecessary #include mistakenly added in execnodes.h.
- Fix mistake in comment in choose_next_subplan_for_leader.
- Adjust row estimates in cost_append for a possibly-different
parallel divisor.
- Clamp row estimates in cost_append after operations that may
not produce integers.
Amit Kapila, with cosmetic adjustments by me.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1+qcbeai3coPpRW=GFCzFeLUsuY4T-AKHqMjxpEGZBPQg@mail.gmail.com
While ldaptls=1 provides an RFC 4513 conforming way to do LDAP
authentication with TLS encryption, there was an earlier de facto
standard way to do LDAP over SSL called LDAPS. Even though it's not
enshrined in a standard, it's still widely used and sometimes required
by organizations' network policies. There seems to be no reason not to
support it when available in the client library. Therefore, add support
when using OpenLDAP 2.4+ or Windows. It can be configured with
ldapscheme=ldaps or ldapurl=ldaps://...
Add tests for both ways of requesting LDAPS and a test for the
pre-existing ldaptls=1. Modify the 001_auth.pl test for "diagnostic
messages", which was previously relying on the server rejecting
ldaptls=1.
Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-By: Peter Eisentraut
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=1s+pA-LZUjQ-9GQz0Z4rX_eK=DFXAF1nBQ+ROPimuOYQ@mail.gmail.com
Previously aggregate transition values for hash and other forms of
aggregation (i.e. sort and no group by) were represented
differently. Hash based aggregation used a grouping set indexed array
pointing to an array of transition values, whereas other forms of
aggregation used one flattened array with the index being computed out
of grouping set and transition offsets.
That made upcoming changes hard, so represent both as grouping set
indexed array of per-group data.
As a nice side-effect this also makes aggregation slightly faster,
because computing offsets with `transno + (setno * numTrans)` turns
out not to be that cheap (too big for x86 lea for example).
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171128003121.nmxbm2ounxzb6n2t@alap3.anarazel.de
The previous coding relied (without any documentation) on the data[]
member of HashMemoryChunkData being at a MAXALIGN'ed offset. If it
was not, the tuples would not be maxaligned either, leading to failures
on alignment-picky machines. While there seems to be no live bug on any
platform we support, this is clearly pretty fragile: any addition to or
rearrangement of the fields in HashMemoryChunkData could break it.
Let's remove the hazard by getting rid of the data[] member and instead
using pointer arithmetic with an explicitly maxalign'ed offset.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/14483.1514938129@sss.pgh.pa.us
The original idea was that we could use an isNull-style bool array
directly as a GinNullCategory array. However, the existing code already
acknowledges that that doesn't really work, because of the possibility
that bool as currently defined can have arbitrary bit patterns for true
values. So it has to loop through the nullFlags array to set each bool
value to an acceptable value. But if we are looping through the whole
array anyway, we might as well build a proper GinNullCategory array
instead and abandon the type casting. That makes the code much safer in
case bool is ever changed to something else.
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
In a race case, EXPLAIN ANALYZE could fail to display correct nbatch
and size information. Refactor so that participants report only on
batches they worked on rather than trying to report on all of them,
and teach explain.c to consider the HashInstrumentation object from
all participants instead of picking the first one it can find. This
should fix an occasional build farm failure in the "join" regression
test.
Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30219.1514428346%40sss.pgh.pa.us
This reduces code duplication a bit, but the primary benefit that it
makes JITing expression evaluation easier. When doing so we can't, as
previously done in the interpreted case, really change opcode without
recompiling. Nor dow we just carry around unnecessary branches to
avoid re-checking over and over.
As a minor side-effect this makes ExecEvalStepOp() O(log(N)) rather
than O(N).
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170901064131.tazjxwus3k2w3ybh@alap3.anarazel.de
Polygon opclass uses compress method feature of SP-GiST added earlier. For now
it's a single operator class which uses this feature. SP-GiST actually indexes
a bounding boxes of input polygons, so part of supported operations are lossy.
Opclass uses most methods of corresponding opclass over boxes of SP-GiST and
treats bounding boxes as point in 4D-space.
Bump catalog version.
Authors: Nikita Glukhov, Alexander Korotkov with minor editorization by me
Reviewed-By: all authors + Darafei Praliaskouski
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/54907069.1030506@sigaev.ru
This patch does three interrelated things:
* Create a new expression execution step type EEOP_PARAM_CALLBACK
and add the infrastructure needed for add-on modules to generate that.
As discussed, the best control mechanism for that seems to be to add
another hook function to ParamListInfo, which will be called by
ExecInitExpr if it's supplied and a PARAM_EXTERN Param is found.
For stand-alone expressions, we add a new entry point to allow the
ParamListInfo to be specified directly, since it can't be retrieved
from the parent plan node's EState.
* Redesign the API for the ParamListInfo paramFetch hook so that the
ParamExternData array can be entirely virtual. This also lets us get rid
of ParamListInfo.paramMask, instead leaving it to the paramFetch hook to
decide which param IDs should be accessible or not. plpgsql_param_fetch
was already doing the identical masking check, so having callers do it too
seemed redundant. While I was at it, I added a "speculative" flag to
paramFetch that the planner can specify as TRUE to avoid unwanted failures.
This solves an ancient problem for plpgsql that it couldn't provide values
of non-DTYPE_VAR variables to the planner for fear of triggering premature
"record not assigned yet" or "field not found" errors during planning.
* Rework plpgsql to get rid of the need for "unshared" parameter lists,
by dint of turning the single ParamListInfo per estate into a nearly
read-only data structure that doesn't instantiate any per-variable data.
Instead, the paramFetch hook controls access to per-variable data and can
make the right decisions on the fly, replacing the cases that we used to
need multiple ParamListInfos for. This might perhaps have been a
performance loss on its own, but by using a paramCompile hook we can
bypass plpgsql_param_fetch entirely during normal query execution.
(It's now only called when, eg, we copy the ParamListInfo into a cursor
portal. copyParamList() or SerializeParamList() effectively instantiate
the virtual parameter array as a simple physical array without a
paramFetch hook, which is what we want in those cases.) This allows
reverting most of commit 6c82d8d1f, though I kept the cosmetic
code-consolidation aspects of that (eg the assign_simple_var function).
Performance testing shows this to be at worst a break-even change,
and it can provide wins ranging up to 20% in test cases involving
accesses to fields of "record" variables. The fact that values of
such variables can now be exposed to the planner might produce wins
in some situations, too, but I've not pursued that angle.
In passing, remove the "parent" pointer from the arguments to
ExecInitExprRec and related functions, instead storing that pointer in a
transient field in ExprState. The ParamListInfo pointer for a stand-alone
expression is handled the same way; we'd otherwise have had to add
yet another recursively-passed-down argument in expression compilation.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/32589.1513706441@sss.pgh.pa.us
Introduce parallel-aware hash joins that appear in EXPLAIN plans as Parallel
Hash Join with Parallel Hash. While hash joins could already appear in
parallel queries, they were previously always parallel-oblivious and had a
partial subplan only on the outer side, meaning that the work of the inner
subplan was duplicated in every worker.
After this commit, the planner will consider using a partial subplan on the
inner side too, using the Parallel Hash node to divide the work over the
available CPU cores and combine its results in shared memory. If the join
needs to be split into multiple batches in order to respect work_mem, then
workers process different batches as much as possible and then work together
on the remaining batches.
The advantages of a parallel-aware hash join over a parallel-oblivious hash
join used in a parallel query are that it:
* avoids wasting memory on duplicated hash tables
* avoids wasting disk space on duplicated batch files
* divides the work of building the hash table over the CPUs
One disadvantage is that there is some communication between the participating
CPUs which might outweigh the benefits of parallelism in the case of small
hash tables. This is avoided by the planner's existing reluctance to supply
partial plans for small scans, but it may be necessary to estimate
synchronization costs in future if that situation changes. Another is that
outer batch 0 must be written to disk if multiple batches are required.
A potential future advantage of parallel-aware hash joins is that right and
full outer joins could be supported, since there is a single set of matched
bits for each hashtable, but that is not yet implemented.
A new GUC enable_parallel_hash is defined to control the feature, defaulting
to on.
Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund, Robert Haas
Tested-By: Rafia Sabih, Prabhat Sahu
Discussion:
https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=2W=cOkiZxcg6qiFQP-dHUe09aqTrEMM7yJDrHMhDv_RA@mail.gmail.comhttps://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=37HKyJ4U6XOLi=JgfSHM3o6B-GaeO-6hkOmneTDkH+Uw@mail.gmail.com
When a Gather or Gather Merge node is started and stopped multiple
times, accumulate instrumentation data only once, at the end, instead
of after each execution, to avoid recording inflated totals.
Commit 778e78ae9f, the previous attempt
at a fix, instead reset the state after every execution, which worked
for the general instrumentation data but had problems for the additional
instrumentation specific to Sort and Hash nodes.
Report by hubert depesz lubaczewski. Analysis and fix by Amit Kapila,
following a design proposal from Thomas Munro, with a comment tweak
by me.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20171127175631.GA405@depesz.com
SharedTuplestore allows multiple participants to write into it and
then read the tuples back from it in parallel. Each reader receives
partial results.
For now it always uses disk files, but other buffering policies and
other kinds of scans (ie each reader receives complete results) may be
useful in future.
The upcoming parallel hash join feature will use this facility.
Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-By: Peter Geoghegan, Andres Freund, Robert Haas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=2W=cOkiZxcg6qiFQP-dHUe09aqTrEMM7yJDrHMhDv_RA@mail.gmail.com
Mechanism names for SCRAM and channel binding names have been included
in scram.h by the libpq frontend code, and this header references a set
of routines which are only used by the backend. scram-common.h is on
the contrary usable by both the backend and libpq, so getting those
names from there seems more reasonable.
Author: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
The previous commit has shown that the sanity checks around freezing
aren't strong enough. Strengthening them seems especially important
because the existance of the bug has caused corruption that we don't
want to make even worse during future vacuum cycles.
The errors are emitted with ereport rather than elog, despite being
"should never happen" messages, so a proper error code is emitted. To
avoid superflous translations, mark messages as internal.
Author: Andres Freund and Alvaro Herrera
Reviewed-By: Alvaro Herrera, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171102112019.33wb7g5wp4zpjelu@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 9.3-
In order for executor nodes to be able to change their ExecProcNode function
after ExecInitNode() has finished, provide ExecSetExecProcNode(). This allows
any wrappers functions that only execProcnode.c knows about to be reinstalled.
The motivation for wanting to change ExecProcNode after ExecInitNode() has
finished is that it is not known until later whether parallel query is
available, so if a parallel variant is to be installed then ExecInitNode()
is too soon to decide.
Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=09rr65VN+cAV5FgyM_z=D77Xy8Fuc9CDDDYbq3pQUezg@mail.gmail.com
Sometimes it is useful to be able to insist that the compiler inline a
function that its normal cost analysis would not normally choose to inline.
This can be useful for instantiating different variants of a function that
remove branches of code by constant folding.
Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=09rr65VN+cAV5FgyM_z=D77Xy8Fuc9CDDDYbq3pQUezg@mail.gmail.com
This patch makes a number of interrelated changes to reduce the overhead
involved in creating/deleting memory contexts. The key ideas are:
* Include the AllocSetContext header of an aset.c context in its first
malloc request, rather than allocating it separately in TopMemoryContext.
This means that we now always create an initial or "keeper" block in an
aset, even if it never receives any allocation requests.
* Create freelists in which we can save and recycle recently-destroyed
asets (this idea is due to Robert Haas).
* In the common case where the name of a context is a constant string,
just store a pointer to it in the context header, rather than copying
the string.
The first change eliminates a palloc/pfree cycle per context, and
also avoids bloat in TopMemoryContext, at the price that creating
a context now involves a malloc/free cycle even if the context never
receives any allocations. That would be a loser for some common
usage patterns, but recycling short-lived contexts via the freelist
eliminates that pain.
Avoiding copying constant strings not only saves strlen() and strcpy()
overhead, but is an essential part of the freelist optimization because
it makes the context header size constant. Currently we make no
attempt to use the freelist for contexts with non-constant names.
(Perhaps someday we'll need to think harder about that, but in current
usage, most contexts with custom names are long-lived anyway.)
The freelist management in this initial commit is pretty simplistic,
and we might want to refine it later --- but in common workloads that
will never matter because the freelists will never get full anyway.
To create a context with a non-constant name, one is now required to
call AllocSetContextCreateExtended and specify the MEMCONTEXT_COPY_NAME
option. AllocSetContextCreate becomes a wrapper macro, and it includes
a test that will complain about non-string-literal context name
parameters on gcc and similar compilers.
An unfortunate side effect of making AllocSetContextCreate a macro is
that one is now *required* to use the size parameter abstraction macros
(ALLOCSET_DEFAULT_SIZES and friends) with it; the pre-9.6 habit of
writing out individual size parameters no longer works unless you
switch to AllocSetContextCreateExtended.
Internally to the memory-context-related modules, the context creation
APIs are simplified, removing the rather baroque original design whereby
a context-type module called mcxt.c which then called back into the
context-type module. That saved a bit of code duplication, but not much,
and it prevented context-type modules from exercising control over the
allocation of context headers.
In passing, I converted the test-and-elog validation of aset size
parameters into Asserts to save a few more cycles. The original thought
was that callers might compute size parameters on the fly, but in practice
nobody does that, so it's useless to expend cycles on checking those
numbers in production builds.
Also, mark the memory context method-pointer structs "const",
just for cleanliness.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2264.1512870796@sss.pgh.pa.us
It's not easy to get signed integer overflow checks correct and
fast. Therefore abstract the necessary infrastructure into a common
header providing addition, subtraction and multiplication for 16, 32,
64 bit signed integers.
The new macros aren't yet used, but a followup commit will convert
several open coded overflow checks.
Author: Andres Freund, with some code stolen from Greg Stark
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171024103954.ztmatprlglz3rwke@alap3.anarazel.de
Peter Eisentraut
Alvaro Herrera
Robert Haas
Simon Riggs
Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian
Andres Freund
Teodor Sigaev