waste of cycles on single-CPU machines, and of dubious utility on multi-CPU
machines too.
Tweak s_lock_stuck so that caller can specify timeout interval, and
increase interval before declaring stuck spinlock for buffer locks and XLOG
locks.
On systems that have fdatasync(), use that rather than fsync() to sync WAL
log writes. Ensure that WAL file is entirely allocated during XLogFileInit.
are now critical sections, so as to ensure die() won't interrupt us while
we are munging shared-memory data structures. Avoid insecure intermediate
states in some code that proc_exit will call, like palloc/pfree. Rename
START/END_CRIT_CODE to START/END_CRIT_SECTION, since that seems to be
what people tend to call them anyway, and make them be called with () like
a function call, in hopes of not confusing pg_indent.
I doubt that this is sufficient to make SIGTERM safe anywhere; there's
just too much code that could get invoked during proc_exit().
virtual FDs, we just return the ENFILE/EMFILE error to the caller,
rather than immediate elog(). This allows more robust behavior in
the postmaster, which uses AllocateFile() but does not want elog().
> situation is already tracked in File routines, but a little bit
> incorrectly.
> After small survey in Linux kernel code, I am not sure about
> it. New patch set pos to unknown in the case of read/write
> fails. And do lseek again.
> Here is the full patch for this. This patch reduce amount of
> lseek call ten ti mes for update statement and twenty times for
> select statement. I tested joined up date and count(*) select
> for table with rows > 170000 and 10 indices. I think this is
> worse of trying. Before lseek calls account for more than 5% o
> f time. Now they are 0.89 and 0.15 respectevly.
>
> Due to only one file modification patch should be applied in
> src/backedn/stora ge/file/ dir.
-- Sincerely Yours,
Denis Perchine
it will close VFDs if necessary to surmount ENFILE or EMFILE failures.
Make use of this in md.c, xlog.c, and user.c routines that were
formerly vulnerable to these failures. In particular, this should
handle failures of mdblindwrt() that have been observed under heavy
load conditions. (By golly, every other process on the system may
crash after Postgres eats up all the kernel FDs, but Postgres will
keep going!)
That means you can now set your options in either or all of $PGDATA/configuration,
some postmaster option (--enable-fsync=off), or set a SET command. The list of
options is in backend/utils/misc/guc.c, documentation will be written post haste.
pg_options is gone, so is that pq_geqo config file. Also removed were backend -K,
-Q, and -T options (no longer applicable, although -d0 does the same as -Q).
Added to configure an --enable-syslog option.
changed all callers from TPRINTF to elog(DEBUG)
as a shared dirtybit for each shared buffer. The shared dirtybit still
controls writing the buffer, but the local bit controls whether we need
to fsync the buffer's file. This arrangement fixes a bug that allowed
some required fsyncs to be missed, and should improve performance as well.
For more info see my post of same date on pghackers.
running gcc and HP's cc with warnings cranked way up. Signed vs unsigned
comparisons, routines declared static and then defined not-static,
that kind of thing. Tedious, but perhaps useful...
proc_exit time. I discovered that if the frontend closes the connection
when you're inside a transaction block, there is nothing ensuring that
temp files go away ... I wonder whether proc_exit ought to try to do an
explicit transaction abort?
BufFile so that it handles multi-segment temporary files transparently.
This allows sorts and hashes to work with data exceeding 2Gig (or whatever
the local limit on file size is). Change psort.c to use relative seeks
instead of absolute seeks for backwards scanning, so that it won't fail
when the data volume exceeds 2Gig.
files to be closed automatically at transaction abort or commit, should
they still be open. Also close any still-open stdio files allocated with
AllocateFile at abort/commit. This should eliminate problems with leakage
of file descriptors after an error. Also, put in some primitive buffered-IO
support so that psort.c can use virtual files without severe performance
penalties.
--- src/backend/storage/file/fd.c Thu Sep 12 17:23:38 1996
***************
*** 262,268 ****
Delete(file);
/* save the seek position */
! fileP->seekPos = lseek(fileP->fd, 0L, SEEK_CUR);
Assert( fileP->seekPos != -1);
/* if we have written to the file, sync it */
--- 262,268 ----
Delete(file);
/* save the seek position */
! fileP->seekPos = (long) lseek(fileP->fd, 0L, SEEK_CUR);
Assert( fileP->seekPos != -1);
/* if we have written to the file, sync it */
Submitted by: Randy Terbush <randy@zyzzyva.com>
- src/backend/tcop/*
- cosmetic changes to OPENLINK patches
- src/backend/storage/*
- more changes, mostly cosmetic
- src/backend/ports/*
- merge in patches for aix and i386_solaris
Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian
Vadim B. Mikheev
Peter Eisentraut
Thomas G. Lockhart
Marc G. Fournier
Bryan Henderson