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Tomas Vondra 39b66a91bd Fix COPY FREEZE with CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS
This adds code omitted from commit 7db0cd2145 by accident, which had
two consequences. Firstly, only rows inserted by heap_multi_insert were
frozen as expected when running COPY FREEZE, while heap_insert left
rows unfrozen. That however includes rows in TOAST tables, so a lot of
data might have been left unfrozen. Secondly, page might have been left
partially empty after relcache invalidation.

This addresses both of those issues.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABOikdN-ptGv0mZntrK2Q8OtfUuAjqaYMGmkdU1dCKFtUxVLrg@mail.gmail.com
2021-01-24 01:08:11 +01:00
Tomas Vondra 7db0cd2145 Set PD_ALL_VISIBLE and visibility map bits in COPY FREEZE
Make sure COPY FREEZE marks the pages as PD_ALL_VISIBLE and updates the
visibility map. Until now we only marked individual tuples as frozen,
but page-level flags were not updated, so the first VACUUM after the
COPY FREEZE had to rewrite the whole table.

This is a fairly old patch, and multiple people worked on it. The first
version was written by Jeff Janes, and then reworked by Pavan Deolasee
and Anastasia Lubennikova.

Author: Anastasia Lubennikova, Pavan Deolasee, Jeff Janes
Reviewed-by: Kuntal Ghosh, Jeff Janes, Tomas Vondra, Masahiko Sawada,
             Andres Freund, Ibrar Ahmed, Robert Haas, Tatsuro Ishii,
             Darafei Praliaskouski
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABOikdN-ptGv0mZntrK2Q8OtfUuAjqaYMGmkdU1dCKFtUxVLrg@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMkU%3D1w3osJJ2FneELhhNRLxfZitDgp9FPHee08NT2FQFmz_pQ%40mail.gmail.com
2021-01-17 22:28:26 +01:00
Peter Geoghegan d168b66682 Enhance nbtree index tuple deletion.
Teach nbtree and heapam to cooperate in order to eagerly remove
duplicate tuples representing dead MVCC versions.  This is "bottom-up
deletion".  Each bottom-up deletion pass is triggered lazily in response
to a flood of versions on an nbtree leaf page.  This usually involves a
"logically unchanged index" hint (these are produced by the executor
mechanism added by commit 9dc718bd).

The immediate goal of bottom-up index deletion is to avoid "unnecessary"
page splits caused entirely by version duplicates.  It naturally has an
even more useful effect, though: it acts as a backstop against
accumulating an excessive number of index tuple versions for any given
_logical row_.  Bottom-up index deletion complements what we might now
call "top-down index deletion": index vacuuming performed by VACUUM.
Bottom-up index deletion responds to the immediate local needs of
queries, while leaving it up to autovacuum to perform infrequent clean
sweeps of the index.  The overall effect is to avoid certain
pathological performance issues related to "version churn" from UPDATEs.

The previous tableam interface used by index AMs to perform tuple
deletion (the table_compute_xid_horizon_for_tuples() function) has been
replaced with a new interface that supports certain new requirements.
Many (perhaps all) of the capabilities added to nbtree by this commit
could also be extended to other index AMs.  That is left as work for a
later commit.

Extend deletion of LP_DEAD-marked index tuples in nbtree by adding logic
to consider extra index tuples (that are not LP_DEAD-marked) for
deletion in passing.  This increases the number of index tuples deleted
significantly in many cases.  The LP_DEAD deletion process (which is now
called "simple deletion" to clearly distinguish it from bottom-up
deletion) won't usually need to visit any extra table blocks to check
these extra tuples.  We have to visit the same table blocks anyway to
generate a latestRemovedXid value (at least in the common case where the
index deletion operation's WAL record needs such a value).

Testing has shown that the "extra tuples" simple deletion enhancement
increases the number of index tuples deleted with almost any workload
that has LP_DEAD bits set in leaf pages.  That is, it almost never fails
to delete at least a few extra index tuples.  It helps most of all in
cases that happen to naturally have a lot of delete-safe tuples.  It's
not uncommon for an individual deletion operation to end up deleting an
order of magnitude more index tuples compared to the old naive approach
(e.g., custom instrumentation of the patch shows that this happens
fairly often when the regression tests are run).

Add a further enhancement that augments simple deletion and bottom-up
deletion in indexes that make use of deduplication: Teach nbtree's
_bt_delitems_delete() function to support granular TID deletion in
posting list tuples.  It is now possible to delete individual TIDs from
posting list tuples provided the TIDs have a tableam block number of a
table block that gets visited as part of the deletion process (visiting
the table block can be triggered directly or indirectly).  Setting the
LP_DEAD bit of a posting list tuple is still an all-or-nothing thing,
but that matters much less now that deletion only needs to start out
with the right _general_ idea about which index tuples are deletable.

Bump XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC because xl_btree_delete changed.

No bump in BTREE_VERSION, since there are no changes to the on-disk
representation of nbtree indexes.  Indexes built on PostgreSQL 12 or
PostgreSQL 13 will automatically benefit from bottom-up index deletion
(i.e. no reindexing required) following a pg_upgrade.  The enhancement
to simple deletion is available with all B-Tree indexes following a
pg_upgrade, no matter what PostgreSQL version the user upgrades from.

Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Reviewed-By: Victor Yegorov <vyegorov@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wzm+maE3apHB8NOtmM=p-DO65j2V5GzAWCOEEuy3JZgb2g@mail.gmail.com
2021-01-13 09:21:32 -08:00
Bruce Momjian ca3b37487b Update copyright for 2021
Backpatch-through: 9.5
2021-01-02 13:06:25 -05:00
Peter Geoghegan 32d6287d2e Get heap page max offset with buffer lock held.
On further reflection it seems better to call PageGetMaxOffsetNumber()
after acquiring a buffer lock on the page.  This shouldn't really
matter, but doing it this way is cleaner.

Follow-up to commit 42288174.

Backpatch: 12-, just like commit 42288174
2020-12-30 17:21:42 -08:00
Peter Geoghegan 4228817449 Fix index deletion latestRemovedXid bug.
The logic for determining the latest removed XID for the purposes of
generating recovery conflicts in REDO routines was subtly broken.  It
failed to follow links from HOT chains, and so failed to consider all
relevant heap tuple headers in some cases.

To fix, expand the loop that deals with LP_REDIRECT line pointers to
also deal with HOT chains.  The new version of the loop is loosely based
on a similar loop from heap_prune_chain().

The impact of this bug is probably quite limited, since the horizon code
necessarily deals with heap tuples that are pointed to by LP_DEAD-set
index tuples.  The process of setting LP_DEAD index tuples (e.g. within
the kill_prior_tuple mechanism) is highly correlated with opportunistic
pruning of pointed-to heap tuples.  Plus the question of generating a
recovery conflict usually comes up some time after index tuple LP_DEAD
bits were initially set, unlike heap pruning, where a latestRemovedXid
is generated at the point of the pruning operation (heap pruning has no
deferred "would-be page split" style processing that produces conflicts
lazily).

Only backpatch to Postgres 12, the first version where this logic runs
during original execution (following commit 558a9165e0).  The index
latestRemovedXid mechanism has had the same bug since it first appeared
over 10 years ago (in commit a760893d), but backpatching to all
supported versions now seems like a bad idea on balance.  Running the
new improved code during recovery seems risky, especially given the lack
of complaints from the field.

Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wz=Eib393+HHcERK_9MtgNS7Ew1HY=RDC_g6GL46zM5C6Q@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 12-
2020-12-30 16:29:05 -08:00
Michael Paquier 947789f1f5 Avoid using tuple from syscache for update of pg_database.datfrozenxid
pg_database.datfrozenxid gets updated using an in-place update at the
end of vacuum or autovacuum.  Since 96cdeae, as pg_database has a toast
relation, it is possible for a pg_database tuple to have toast values
if there is a large set of ACLs in place.  In such a case, the in-place
update would fail because of the flattening of the toast values done for
the catcache entry fetched.  Instead of using a copy from the catcache,
this changes the logic to fetch the copy of the tuple by directly
scanning pg_database.

Per the lack of complaints on the matter, no backpatch is done.  Note
that before 96cdeae, attempting to insert such a tuple to pg_database
would cause a "row is too big" error, so the end-of-vacuum problem was
not reachable.

Author: Ashwin Agrawal, Junfeng Yang
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/DM5PR0501MB38800D9E4605BCA72DD35557CCE10@DM5PR0501MB3880.namprd05.prod.outlook.com
2020-12-08 12:13:19 +09:00
Peter Geoghegan 180cf876d4 Remove ineffective heapam CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS().
Remove a CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() call that could never actually handle an
interrupt.  We always have a heap page buffer lock at this point.
Having a useless CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() call is harmless but misleading.

It is probably possible to work around the immediate problem by moving
the CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() to before the heap page buffer lock is
acquired.  That isn't enough to make the function responsive to
interrupts, though.  The index AM caller will still hold an exclusive
buffer lock of its own.
2020-11-09 09:00:12 -08:00
Alvaro Herrera 93f84d59f8 Revert "Remove pointless HeapTupleHeaderIndicatesMovedPartitions calls"
This reverts commit 85adb5e91e.  It was not intended for commit just
yet.
2020-10-15 15:16:11 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 85adb5e91e Remove pointless HeapTupleHeaderIndicatesMovedPartitions calls
Pavan Deolasee recently noted that a few of the
HeapTupleHeaderIndicatesMovedPartitions calls added by commit
5db6df0c01 are useless, since they are done after comparing t_self
with t_ctid.  But because t_self can never be set to the magical values
that indicate that the tuple moved partition, this can never succeed: if
the first test fails (so we know t_self equals t_ctid), necessarily the
second test will also fail.

So these checks can be removed and no harm is done.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200929164411.GA15497@alvherre.pgsql
2020-10-15 14:32:34 -03:00
Amit Kapila 0d32511eca Fix comments in heapam.c.
After commits 85f6b49c2c and 3ba59ccc89, we can allow parallel inserts
which was earlier not possible as parallel group members won't conflict
for relation extension and page lock.  In those commits, we forgot to
update comments at few places.

Author: Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas and Dilip Kumar
Backpatch-through: 13
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFiTN-tMrQh5FFMPx5aWJ+1gi1H6JxktEhq5mDwCHgnEO5oBkA@mail.gmail.com
2020-09-18 09:50:44 +05:30
Andres Freund c62a0a49f3 Revert "Make vacuum a bit more verbose to debug BF failure."
This reverts commit 49967da65a.

Enough time has passed that we can be confident that 07f32fcd23
resolved the issue. Therefore we can remove the temporary debugging
aids.

Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1k7tGP-0005V0-5k@gemulon.postgresql.org
2020-08-20 12:59:00 -07:00
Andres Freund 49967da65a Make vacuum a bit more verbose to debug BF failure.
This is temporary. While possibly some more error checking / debugging
in this path would be a good thing, it'll not look exactly like this.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200816181604.l54m6kss5ntd6xow@alap3.anarazel.de
2020-08-16 12:57:01 -07:00
Noah Misch 676a9c3cc4 Correct several behavior descriptions in comments.
Reuse cautionary language from src/test/ssl/README in
src/test/kerberos/README.  SLRUs have had access to six-character
segments names since commit 73c986adde,
and recovery stopped calling HeapTupleHeaderAdvanceLatestRemovedXid() in
commit 558a9165e0.  The other corrections
are more self-evident.
2020-08-15 20:21:52 -07:00
Andres Freund dc7420c2c9 snapshot scalability: Don't compute global horizons while building snapshots.
To make GetSnapshotData() more scalable, it cannot not look at at each proc's
xmin: While snapshot contents do not need to change whenever a read-only
transaction commits or a snapshot is released, a proc's xmin is modified in
those cases. The frequency of xmin modifications leads to, particularly on
higher core count systems, many cache misses inside GetSnapshotData(), despite
the data underlying a snapshot not changing. That is the most
significant source of GetSnapshotData() scaling poorly on larger systems.

Without accessing xmins, GetSnapshotData() cannot calculate accurate horizons /
thresholds as it has so far. But we don't really have to: The horizons don't
actually change that much between GetSnapshotData() calls. Nor are the horizons
actually used every time a snapshot is built.

The trick this commit introduces is to delay computation of accurate horizons
until there use and using horizon boundaries to determine whether accurate
horizons need to be computed.

The use of RecentGlobal[Data]Xmin to decide whether a row version could be
removed has been replaces with new GlobalVisTest* functions.  These use two
thresholds to determine whether a row can be pruned:
1) definitely_needed, indicating that rows deleted by XIDs >= definitely_needed
   are definitely still visible.
2) maybe_needed, indicating that rows deleted by XIDs < maybe_needed can
   definitely be removed
GetSnapshotData() updates definitely_needed to be the xmin of the computed
snapshot.

When testing whether a row can be removed (with GlobalVisTestIsRemovableXid())
and the tested XID falls in between the two (i.e. XID >= maybe_needed && XID <
definitely_needed) the boundaries can be recomputed to be more accurate. As it
is not cheap to compute accurate boundaries, we limit the number of times that
happens in short succession.  As the boundaries used by
GlobalVisTestIsRemovableXid() are never reset (with maybe_needed updated by
GetSnapshotData()), it is likely that further test can benefit from an earlier
computation of accurate horizons.

To avoid regressing performance when old_snapshot_threshold is set (as that
requires an accurate horizon to be computed), heap_page_prune_opt() doesn't
unconditionally call TransactionIdLimitedForOldSnapshots() anymore. Both the
computation of the limited horizon, and the triggering of errors (with
SetOldSnapshotThresholdTimestamp()) is now only done when necessary to remove
tuples.

This commit just removes the accesses to PGXACT->xmin from
GetSnapshotData(), but other members of PGXACT residing in the same
cache line are accessed. Therefore this in itself does not result in a
significant improvement. Subsequent commits will take advantage of the
fact that GetSnapshotData() now does not need to access xmins anymore.

Note: This contains a workaround in heap_page_prune_opt() to keep the
snapshot_too_old tests working. While that workaround is ugly, the tests
currently are not meaningful, and it seems best to address them separately.

Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200301083601.ews6hz5dduc3w2se@alap3.anarazel.de
2020-08-12 16:03:49 -07:00
Amit Kapila 7259736a6e Implement streaming mode in ReorderBuffer.
Instead of serializing the transaction to disk after reaching the
logical_decoding_work_mem limit in memory, we consume the changes we have
in memory and invoke stream API methods added by commit 45fdc9738b.
However, sometimes if we have incomplete toast or speculative insert we
spill to the disk because we can't generate the complete tuple and stream.
And, as soon as we get the complete tuple we stream the transaction
including the serialized changes.

We can do this incremental processing thanks to having assignments
(associating subxact with toplevel xacts) in WAL right away, and
thanks to logging the invalidation messages at each command end. These
features are added by commits 0bead9af48 and c55040ccd0 respectively.

Now that we can stream in-progress transactions, the concurrent aborts
may cause failures when the output plugin consults catalogs (both system
and user-defined).

We handle such failures by returning ERRCODE_TRANSACTION_ROLLBACK
sqlerrcode from system table scan APIs to the backend or WALSender
decoding a specific uncommitted transaction. The decoding logic on the
receipt of such a sqlerrcode aborts the decoding of the current
transaction and continue with the decoding of other transactions.

We have ReorderBufferTXN pointer in each ReorderBufferChange by which we
know which xact it belongs to.  The output plugin can use this to decide
which changes to discard in case of stream_abort_cb (e.g. when a subxact
gets discarded).

We also provide a new option via SQL APIs to fetch the changes being
streamed.

Author: Dilip Kumar, Tomas Vondra, Amit Kapila, Nikhil Sontakke
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila, Kuntal Ghosh, Ajin Cherian
Tested-by: Neha Sharma, Mahendra Singh Thalor and Ajin Cherian
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/688b0b7f-2f6c-d827-c27b-216a8e3ea700@2ndquadrant.com
2020-08-08 07:47:06 +05:30
Michael Paquier e3931d01f3 Use multi-inserts for pg_attribute and pg_shdepend
For pg_attribute, this allows to insert at once a full set of attributes
for a relation (roughly 15% of WAL reduction in extreme cases).  For
pg_shdepend, this reduces the work done when creating new shared
dependencies from a database template.  The number of slots used for the
insertion is capped at 64kB of data inserted for both, depending on the
number of items to insert and the length of the rows involved.

More can be done for other catalogs, like pg_depend.  This part requires
a different approach as the number of slots to use depends also on the
number of entries discarded as pinned dependencies.  This is also
related to the rework or dependency handling for ALTER TABLE and CREATE
TABLE, mainly.

Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190213182737.mxn6hkdxwrzgxk35@alap3.anarazel.de
2020-07-31 10:54:26 +09:00
Thomas Munro cb04ad4985 Move syncscan.c to src/backend/access/common.
Since the tableam.c code needs to make use of the syncscan.c routines
itself, and since other block-oriented AMs might also want to use it one
day, it didn't make sense for it to live under src/backend/access/heap.

Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGLCnG%3DNEAByg6bk%2BCT9JZD97Y%3DAxKhh27Su9FeGWOKvDg%40mail.gmail.com
2020-07-29 16:59:33 +12:00
David Rowley 56788d2156 Allocate consecutive blocks during parallel seqscans
Previously we would allocate blocks to parallel workers during a parallel
sequential scan 1 block at a time.  Since other workers were likely to
request a block before a worker returns for another block number to work
on, this could lead to non-sequential I/O patterns in each worker which
could cause the operating system's readahead to perform poorly or not at
all.

Here we change things so that we allocate consecutive "chunks" of blocks
to workers and have them work on those until they're done, at which time
we allocate another chunk for the worker.  The size of these chunks is
based on the size of the relation.

Initial patch here was by Thomas Munro which showed some good improvements
just having a fixed chunk size of 64 blocks with a simple ramp-down near
the end of the scan. The revisions of the patch to make the chunk size
based on the relation size and the adjusted ramp-down in powers of two was
done by me, along with quite extensive benchmarking to determine the
optimal chunk sizes.

For the most part, benchmarks have shown significant performance
improvements for large parallel sequential scans on Linux, FreeBSD and
Windows using SSDs.  It's less clear how this affects the performance of
cloud providers.  Tests done so far are unable to obtain stable enough
performance to provide meaningful benchmark results.  It is possible that
this could cause some performance regressions on more obscure filesystems,
so we may need to later provide users with some ability to get something
closer to the old behavior.  For now, let's leave that until we see that
it's really required.

Author: Thomas Munro, David Rowley
Reviewed-by: Ranier Vilela, Soumyadeep Chakraborty, Robert Haas
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila, Kirk Jamison
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJ_EErDv41YycXcbMbCBkztA34+z1ts9VQH+ACRuvpxig@mail.gmail.com
2020-07-26 21:02:45 +12:00
Michael Paquier 9168793d72 Fix comments related to table AMs
Incorrect function names were referenced.  As this fixes some portions
of tableam.h, that is mentioned in the docs as something to look at when
implementing a table AM, backpatch down to 12 where this has been
introduced.

Author: Hironobu Suzuki
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8fe6d672-28dd-3f1d-7aed-ac2f6d599d3f@interdb.jp
Backpatch-through: 12
2020-07-14 13:17:11 +09:00
Andres Freund 5e7bbb5286 code: replace 'master' with 'primary' where appropriate.
Also changed "in the primary" to "on the primary", and added a few
"the" before "primary".

Author: Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: David Steele
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200615182235.x7lch5n6kcjq4aue@alap3.anarazel.de
2020-07-08 12:57:23 -07:00
Thomas Munro 7aa4fb5925 Improve comments for [Heap]CheckForSerializableConflictOut().
Rewrite the documentation of these functions, in light of recent bug fix
commit 5940ffb2.

Back-patch to 13 where the check-for-conflict-out code was split up into
AM-specific and generic parts, and new documentation was added that now
looked wrong.

Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/db7b729d-0226-d162-a126-8a8ab2dc4443%40jepsen.io
2020-06-12 10:55:38 +12:00
Peter Geoghegan 5940ffb221 Avoid update conflict out serialization anomalies.
SSI's HeapCheckForSerializableConflictOut() test failed to correctly
handle conditions involving a concurrently inserted tuple which is later
concurrently updated by a separate transaction .  A SELECT statement
that called HeapCheckForSerializableConflictOut() could end up using the
same XID (updater's XID) for both the original tuple, and the successor
tuple, missing the XID of the xact that created the original tuple
entirely.  This only happened when neither tuple from the chain was
visible to the transaction's MVCC snapshot.

The observable symptoms of this bug were subtle.  A pair of transactions
could commit, with the later transaction failing to observe the effects
of the earlier transaction (because of the confusion created by the
update to the non-visible row).  This bug dates all the way back to
commit dafaa3ef, which added SSI.

To fix, make sure that we check the xmin of concurrently inserted tuples
that happen to also have been updated concurrently.

Author: Peter Geoghegan
Reported-By: Kyle Kingsbury
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/db7b729d-0226-d162-a126-8a8ab2dc4443@jepsen.io
Backpatch: All supported versions
2020-06-11 10:09:47 -07:00
Tom Lane 5cbfce562f Initial pgindent and pgperltidy run for v13.
Includes some manual cleanup of places that pgindent messed up,
most of which weren't per project style anyway.

Notably, it seems some people didn't absorb the style rules of
commit c9d297751, because there were a bunch of new occurrences
of function calls with a newline just after the left paren, all
with faulty expectations about how the rest of the call would get
indented.
2020-05-14 13:06:50 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut aaf069aa34 Remove HEAPDEBUGALL
This has been broken since PostgreSQL 12 and was probably never really
used.  PostgreSQL 12 added an analogous HEAPAMSLOTDEBUGALL, which
still works right now, but it's also not very useful, so remove that
as well.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/645c0646-4218-d4c3-409a-a7003a0c108d%402ndquadrant.com
2020-04-22 08:35:33 +02:00
Andres Freund f946069e68 Use TransactionXmin instead of RecentGlobalXmin in heap_abort_speculative().
There's a very low risk that RecentGlobalXmin could be far enough in
the past to be older than relfrozenxid, or even wrapped
around. Luckily the consequences of that having happened wouldn't be
too bad - the page wouldn't be pruned for a while.

Avoid that risk by using TransactionXmin instead. As that's announced
via MyPgXact->xmin, it is protected against wrapping around (see code
comments for details around relfrozenxid).

Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200328213023.s4eyijhdosuc4vcj@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 9.5-
2020-04-05 17:47:30 -07:00
Noah Misch c6b92041d3 Skip WAL for new relfilenodes, under wal_level=minimal.
Until now, only selected bulk operations (e.g. COPY) did this.  If a
given relfilenode received both a WAL-skipping COPY and a WAL-logged
operation (e.g. INSERT), recovery could lose tuples from the COPY.  See
src/backend/access/transam/README section "Skipping WAL for New
RelFileNode" for the new coding rules.  Maintainers of table access
methods should examine that section.

To maintain data durability, just before commit, we choose between an
fsync of the relfilenode and copying its contents to WAL.  A new GUC,
wal_skip_threshold, guides that choice.  If this change slows a workload
that creates small, permanent relfilenodes under wal_level=minimal, try
adjusting wal_skip_threshold.  Users setting a timeout on COMMIT may
need to adjust that timeout, and log_min_duration_statement analysis
will reflect time consumption moving to COMMIT from commands like COPY.

Internally, this requires a reliable determination of whether
RollbackAndReleaseCurrentSubTransaction() would unlink a relation's
current relfilenode.  Introduce rd_firstRelfilenodeSubid.  Amend the
specification of rd_createSubid such that the field is zero when a new
rel has an old rd_node.  Make relcache.c retain entries for certain
dropped relations until end of transaction.

Bump XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC, since this introduces XLOG_GIST_ASSIGN_LSN.
Future servers accept older WAL, so this bump is discretionary.

Kyotaro Horiguchi, reviewed (in earlier, similar versions) by Robert
Haas.  Heikki Linnakangas and Michael Paquier implemented earlier
designs that materially clarified the problem.  Reviewed, in earlier
designs, by Andrew Dunstan, Andres Freund, Alvaro Herrera, Tom Lane,
Fujii Masao, and Simon Riggs.  Reported by Martijn van Oosterhout.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20150702220524.GA9392@svana.org
2020-04-04 12:25:34 -07:00
Noah Misch de9396326e Revert "Skip WAL for new relfilenodes, under wal_level=minimal."
This reverts commit cb2fd7eac2.  Per
numerous buildfarm members, it was incompatible with parallel query, and
a test case assumed LP64.  Back-patch to 9.5 (all supported versions).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200321224920.GB1763544@rfd.leadboat.com
2020-03-22 09:24:09 -07:00
Noah Misch cb2fd7eac2 Skip WAL for new relfilenodes, under wal_level=minimal.
Until now, only selected bulk operations (e.g. COPY) did this.  If a
given relfilenode received both a WAL-skipping COPY and a WAL-logged
operation (e.g. INSERT), recovery could lose tuples from the COPY.  See
src/backend/access/transam/README section "Skipping WAL for New
RelFileNode" for the new coding rules.  Maintainers of table access
methods should examine that section.

To maintain data durability, just before commit, we choose between an
fsync of the relfilenode and copying its contents to WAL.  A new GUC,
wal_skip_threshold, guides that choice.  If this change slows a workload
that creates small, permanent relfilenodes under wal_level=minimal, try
adjusting wal_skip_threshold.  Users setting a timeout on COMMIT may
need to adjust that timeout, and log_min_duration_statement analysis
will reflect time consumption moving to COMMIT from commands like COPY.

Internally, this requires a reliable determination of whether
RollbackAndReleaseCurrentSubTransaction() would unlink a relation's
current relfilenode.  Introduce rd_firstRelfilenodeSubid.  Amend the
specification of rd_createSubid such that the field is zero when a new
rel has an old rd_node.  Make relcache.c retain entries for certain
dropped relations until end of transaction.

Back-patch to 9.5 (all supported versions).  This introduces a new WAL
record type, XLOG_GIST_ASSIGN_LSN, without bumping XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC.  As
always, update standby systems before master systems.  This changes
sizeof(RelationData) and sizeof(IndexStmt), breaking binary
compatibility for affected extensions.  (The most recent commit to
affect the same class of extensions was
089e4d405d0f3b94c74a2c6a54357a84a681754b.)

Kyotaro Horiguchi, reviewed (in earlier, similar versions) by Robert
Haas.  Heikki Linnakangas and Michael Paquier implemented earlier
designs that materially clarified the problem.  Reviewed, in earlier
designs, by Andrew Dunstan, Andres Freund, Alvaro Herrera, Tom Lane,
Fujii Masao, and Simon Riggs.  Reported by Martijn van Oosterhout.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20150702220524.GA9392@svana.org
2020-03-21 09:38:26 -07:00
Thomas Munro fc34b0d9de Introduce a maintenance_io_concurrency setting.
Introduce a GUC and a tablespace option to control I/O prefetching, much
like effective_io_concurrency, but for work that is done on behalf of
many client sessions.

Use the new setting in heapam.c instead of the hard-coded formula
effective_io_concurrency + 10 introduced by commit 558a9165e0.  Go with
a default value of 10 for now, because it's a round number pretty close
to the value used for that existing case.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJUw08dPs_3EUcdO6M90GnjofPYrWp4YSLaBkgYwS-AqA%40mail.gmail.com
2020-03-16 17:14:26 +13:00
Michael Paquier 7d672b76bf Issue properly WAL record for CID of first catalog tuple in multi-insert
Multi-insert for heap is not yet used actively for catalogs, but the
code to support this case is in place for logical decoding.  The
existing code forgot to issue a XLOG_HEAP2_NEW_CID record for the first
tuple inserted, leading to failures when attempting to use multiple
inserts for catalogs at decoding time.  This commit fixes the problem by
WAL-logging the needed CID.

This is not an active bug, so no back-patch is done.

Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E0D4CC67-A1CF-4DF4-991D-B3AC2EB5FAE9@yesql.se
2020-02-25 07:55:22 +09:00
Alvaro Herrera c9d2977519 Clean up newlines following left parentheses
We used to strategically place newlines after some function call left
parentheses to make pgindent move the argument list a few chars to the
left, so that the whole line would fit under 80 chars.  However,
pgindent no longer does that, so the newlines just made the code
vertically longer for no reason.  Remove those newlines, and reflow some
of those lines for some extra naturality.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200129200401.GA6303@alvherre.pgsql
2020-01-30 13:42:14 -03:00
Thomas Munro 11da6bccd1 Fix compile error on HP C.
Per build farm animal anole, after commit 6f38d4dac3.
2020-01-28 20:30:40 +13:00
Thomas Munro 6f38d4dac3 Remove dependency on HeapTuple from predicate locking functions.
The following changes make the predicate locking functions more
generic and suitable for use by future access methods:

- PredicateLockTuple() is renamed to PredicateLockTID().  It takes
  ItemPointer and inserting transaction ID instead of HeapTuple.

- CheckForSerializableConflictIn() takes blocknum instead of buffer.

- CheckForSerializableConflictOut() no longer takes HeapTuple or buffer.

Author: Ashwin Agrawal
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Kuntal Ghosh, Thomas Munro
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALfoeiv0k3hkEb3Oqk%3DziWqtyk2Jys1UOK5hwRBNeANT_yX%2Bng%40mail.gmail.com
2020-01-28 13:13:04 +13:00
Michael Paquier 7689d907bb Fix comment in heapam.c
Improvement per suggestion from Tom Lane.

Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/FED18699-4270-4778-8DA8-10F119A5ECF3@yesql.se
2020-01-13 17:57:38 +09:00
Bruce Momjian 7559d8ebfa Update copyrights for 2020
Backpatch-through: update all files in master, backpatch legal files through 9.4
2020-01-01 12:21:45 -05:00
Michael Paquier 7854e07f25 Revert "Rename files and headers related to index AM"
This follows multiple complains from Peter Geoghegan, Andres Freund and
Alvaro Herrera that this issue ought to be dug more before actually
happening, if it happens.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191226144606.GA5659@alvherre.pgsql
2019-12-27 08:09:00 +09:00
Michael Paquier 8ce3aa9b59 Rename files and headers related to index AM
The following renaming is done so as source files related to index
access methods are more consistent with table access methods (the
original names used for index AMs ware too generic, and could be
confused as including features related to table AMs):
- amapi.h -> indexam.h.
- amapi.c -> indexamapi.c.  Here we have an equivalent with
backend/access/table/tableamapi.c.
- amvalidate.c -> indexamvalidate.c.
- amvalidate.h -> indexamvalidate.h.
- genam.c -> indexgenam.c.
- genam.h -> indexgenam.h.

This has been discussed during the development of v12 when table AM was
worked on, but the renaming never happened.

Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Fabien Coelho, Julien Rouhaud
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191223053434.GF34339@paquier.xyz
2019-12-25 10:23:39 +09:00
Robert Haas 2e8b6bfa90 Rename some toasting functions based on whether they are heap-specific.
The old names for the attribute-detoasting functions names included
the word "heap," which seems outdated now that the heap is only one of
potentially many table access methods.

On the other hand, toast_insert_or_update and toast_delete are
heap-specific, so rename them by adding "heap_" as a prefix.

Not all of the work of making the TOAST system fully accessible to AMs
other than the heap is done yet, but there seems to be little harm in
getting this renaming out of the way now. Commit
8b94dab066 already divided up the
functions among various files partially according to whether it was
intended that they should be heap-specific or AM-agnostic, so this is
just clarifying the division contemplated by that commit.

Patch by me, reviewed and tested by Prabhat Sabu, Thomas Munro,
Andres Freund, and Álvaro Herrera.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZv-=2iWM4jcw5ZhJeL18HF96+W1yJeYrnGMYdkFFnEpQ@mail.gmail.com
2019-10-04 14:24:46 -04:00
Robert Haas 8b94dab066 Split tuptoaster.c into three separate files.
detoast.c/h contain functions required to detoast a datum, partially
or completely, plus a few other utility functions for examining the
size of toasted datums.

toast_internals.c/h contain functions that are used internally to the
TOAST subsystem but which (mostly) do not need to be accessed from
outside.

heaptoast.c/h contains code that is intrinsically specific to the
heap AM, either because it operates on HeapTuples or is based on the
layout of a heap page.

detoast.c and toast_internals.c are placed in
src/backend/access/common rather than src/backend/access/heap.  At
present, both files still have dependencies on the heap, but that will
be improved in a future commit.

Patch by me, reviewed and tested by Prabhat Sabu, Thomas Munro,
Andres Freund, and Álvaro Herrera.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZv-=2iWM4jcw5ZhJeL18HF96+W1yJeYrnGMYdkFFnEpQ@mail.gmail.com
2019-09-05 13:15:10 -04:00
Tom Lane f63a5ead9d Avoid touching replica identity index in ExtractReplicaIdentity().
In what seems like a fit of misplaced optimization,
ExtractReplicaIdentity() accessed the relation's replica-identity
index without taking any lock on it.  Usually, the surrounding query
already holds some lock so this is safe enough ... but in the case
of a previously-planned delete, there might be no existing lock.
Given a suitable test case, this is exposed in v12 and HEAD by an
assertion added by commit b04aeb0a0.

The whole thing's rather poorly thought out anyway; rather than
looking directly at the index, we should use the index-attributes
bitmap that's held by the parent table's relcache entry, as the
caller functions do.  This is more consistent and likely a bit
faster, since it avoids a cache lookup.  Hence, change to doing it
that way.

While at it, rather than blithely assuming that the identity
columns are non-null (with catastrophic results if that's wrong),
add assertion checks that they aren't null.  Possibly those should
be actual test-and-elog, but I'll leave it like this for now.

In principle, this is a bug that's been there since this code was
introduced (in 9.4).  In practice, the risk seems quite low, since
we do have a lock on the index's parent table, so concurrent
changes to the index's catalog entries seem unlikely.  Given the
precedent that commit 9c703c169 wasn't back-patched, I won't risk
back-patching this further than v12.

Per report from Hadi Moshayedi.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAK=1=Wrek44Ese1V7LjKiQS-Nd-5LgLi_5_CskGbpggKEf3tKQ@mail.gmail.com
2019-09-02 16:10:37 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera f8cf524da1 Fix bogus comment
Author: Alexander Lakhin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190819072244.GE18166@paquier.xyz
2019-08-20 16:04:09 -04:00
Michael Paquier 66bde49d96 Fix inconsistencies and typos in the tree, take 10
This addresses some issues with unnecessary code comments, fixes various
typos in docs and comments, and removes some orphaned structures and
definitions.

Author: Alexander Lakhin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9aabc775-5494-b372-8bcb-4dfc0bd37c68@gmail.com
2019-08-13 13:53:41 +09:00
Heikki Linnakangas 1169fcf129 Fix predicate-locking of HOT updated rows.
In serializable mode, heap_hot_search_buffer() incorrectly acquired a
predicate lock on the root tuple, not the returned tuple that satisfied
the visibility checks. As explained in README-SSI, the predicate lock does
not need to be copied or extended to other tuple versions, but for that to
work, the correct, visible, tuple version must be locked in the first
place.

The original SSI commit had this bug in it, but it was fixed back in 2013,
in commit 81fbbfe335. But unfortunately, it was reintroduced a few months
later in commit b89e151054. Wising up from that, add a regression test
to cover this, so that it doesn't get reintroduced again. Also, move the
code that sets 't_self', so that it happens at the same time that the
other HeapTuple fields are set, to make it more clear that all the code in
the loop operate on the "current" tuple in the chain, not the root tuple.

Bug spotted by Andres Freund, analysis and original fix by Thomas Munro,
test case and some additional changes to the fix by Heikki Linnakangas.
Backpatch to all supported versions (9.4).

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20190731210630.nqhszuktygwftjty%40alap3.anarazel.de
2019-08-07 12:40:49 +03:00
Michael Paquier 8548ddc61b Fix inconsistencies and typos in the tree, take 9
This addresses more issues with code comments, variable names and
unreferenced variables.

Author: Alexander Lakhin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7ab243e0-116d-3e44-d120-76b3df7abefd@gmail.com
2019-08-05 12:14:58 +09:00
Michael Paquier 23bccc823d Fix inconsistencies and typos in the tree
This is numbered take 7, and addresses a set of issues with code
comments, variable names and unreferenced variables.

Author: Alexander Lakhin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/dff75442-2468-f74f-568c-6006e141062f@gmail.com
2019-07-22 10:01:50 +09:00
Alvaro Herrera 8b21b416ed Avoid spurious deadlocks when upgrading a tuple lock
This puts back reverted commit de87a084c0, with some bug fixes.

When two (or more) transactions are waiting for transaction T1 to release a
tuple-level lock, and transaction T1 upgrades its lock to a higher level, a
spurious deadlock can be reported among the waiting transactions when T1
finishes.  The simplest example case seems to be:

T1: select id from job where name = 'a' for key share;
Y: select id from job where name = 'a' for update; -- starts waiting for T1
Z: select id from job where name = 'a' for key share;
T1: update job set name = 'b' where id = 1;
Z: update job set name = 'c' where id = 1; -- starts waiting for T1
T1: rollback;

At this point, transaction Y is rolled back on account of a deadlock: Y
holds the heavyweight tuple lock and is waiting for the Xmax to be released,
while Z holds part of the multixact and tries to acquire the heavyweight
lock (per protocol) and goes to sleep; once T1 releases its part of the
multixact, Z is awakened only to be put back to sleep on the heavyweight
lock that Y is holding while sleeping.  Kaboom.

This can be avoided by having Z skip the heavyweight lock acquisition.  As
far as I can see, the biggest downside is that if there are multiple Z
transactions, the order in which they resume after T1 finishes is not
guaranteed.

Backpatch to 9.6.  The patch applies cleanly on 9.5, but the new tests don't
work there (because isolationtester is not smart enough), so I'm not going
to risk it.

Author: Oleksii Kliukin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/B9C9D7CD-EB94-4635-91B6-E558ACEC0EC3@hintbits.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2815.1560521451@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-06-18 18:23:16 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 9d20b0ec8f Revert "Avoid spurious deadlocks when upgrading a tuple lock"
This reverts commits 3da73d6839 and de87a084c0.

This code has some tricky corner cases that I'm not sure are correct and
not properly tested anyway, so I'm reverting the whole thing for next
week's releases (reintroducing the deadlock bug that we set to fix).
I'll try again afterwards.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1hbXKQ-0003g1-0C@gemulon.postgresql.org
2019-06-16 22:24:21 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 3da73d6839 Silence compiler warning
Introduced in de87a084c0.
2019-06-14 11:33:40 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera de87a084c0 Avoid spurious deadlocks when upgrading a tuple lock
When two (or more) transactions are waiting for transaction T1 to release a
tuple-level lock, and transaction T1 upgrades its lock to a higher level, a
spurious deadlock can be reported among the waiting transactions when T1
finishes.  The simplest example case seems to be:

T1: select id from job where name = 'a' for key share;
Y: select id from job where name = 'a' for update; -- starts waiting for X
Z: select id from job where name = 'a' for key share;
T1: update job set name = 'b' where id = 1;
Z: update job set name = 'c' where id = 1; -- starts waiting for X
T1: rollback;

At this point, transaction Y is rolled back on account of a deadlock: Y
holds the heavyweight tuple lock and is waiting for the Xmax to be released,
while Z holds part of the multixact and tries to acquire the heavyweight
lock (per protocol) and goes to sleep; once X releases its part of the
multixact, Z is awakened only to be put back to sleep on the heavyweight
lock that Y is holding while sleeping.  Kaboom.

This can be avoided by having Z skip the heavyweight lock acquisition.  As
far as I can see, the biggest downside is that if there are multiple Z
transactions, the order in which they resume after X finishes is not
guaranteed.

Backpatch to 9.6.  The patch applies cleanly on 9.5, but the new tests don't
work there (because isolationtester is not smart enough), so I'm not going
to risk it.

Author: Oleksii Kliukin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/B9C9D7CD-EB94-4635-91B6-E558ACEC0EC3@hintbits.com
2019-06-13 17:28:24 -04:00