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Amit Kapila 7db0cde6b5 Revert "Avoid the creation of the free space map for small heap relations".
This feature was using a process local map to track the first few blocks
in the relation.  The map was reset each time we get the block with enough
freespace.  It was discussed that it would be better to track this map on
a per-relation basis in relcache and then invalidate the same whenever
vacuum frees up some space in the page or when FSM is created.  The new
design would be better both in terms of API design and performance.

List of commits reverted, in reverse chronological order:

06c8a5090e  Improve code comments in b0eaa4c51b.
13e8643bfc  During pg_upgrade, conditionally skip transfer of FSMs.
6f918159a9  Add more tests for FSM.
9c32e4c350  Clear the local map when not used.
29d108cdec  Update the documentation for FSM behavior..
08ecdfe7e5  Make FSM test portable.
b0eaa4c51b  Avoid creation of the free space map for small heap relations.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190416180452.3pm6uegx54iitbt5@alap3.anarazel.de
2019-05-07 09:30:24 +05:30
Amit Kapila 29d108cdec Doc: Update the documentation for FSM behavior for small tables.
In commit b0eaa4c51b, we have avoided the creation of FSM for small tables.
So the functions that use FSM to compute the free space can return zero for
such tables.  This was previously also possible for the cases where the
vacuum has not been triggered to update FSM.

This commit updates the comments in code and documentation to reflect this
behavior.

Author: John Naylor
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACPNZCtba-3m1q3A8gxA_vxg=T7gQf7gMbpR4Ciy5LntY-j+0Q@mail.gmail.com
2019-02-20 17:37:39 +05:30
Peter Eisentraut 3c49c6facb Convert documentation to DocBook XML
Since some preparation work had already been done, the only source
changes left were changing empty-element tags like <xref linkend="foo">
to <xref linkend="foo"/>, and changing the DOCTYPE.

The source files are still named *.sgml, but they are actually XML files
now.  Renaming could be considered later.

In the build system, the intermediate step to convert from SGML to XML
is removed.  Everything is build straight from the source files again.
The OpenSP (or the old SP) package is no longer needed.

The documentation toolchain instructions are updated and are much
simpler now.

Peter Eisentraut, Alexander Lakhin, Jürgen Purtz
2017-11-23 09:44:28 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 0f53934164 doc: Clarify pgstattuple privileges information
The description has gotten a bit confusing over time, so rewrite the
paragraph a bit.

Reported-by: Feike Steenbergen <feikesteenbergen@gmail.com>
2017-11-02 12:13:36 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut c29c578908 Don't use SGML empty tags
For DocBook XML compatibility, don't use SGML empty tags (</>) anymore,
replace by the full tag name.  Add a warning option to catch future
occurrences.

Alexander Lakhin, Jürgen Purtz
2017-10-17 15:10:33 -04:00
Robert Haas 620b49a16d hash: Increase the number of possible overflow bitmaps by 8x.
Per a report from AP, it's not that hard to exhaust the supply of
bitmap pages if you create a table with a hash index and then insert a
few billion rows - and then you start getting errors when you try to
insert additional rows.  In the particular case reported by AP,
there's another fix that we can make to improve recycling of overflow
pages, which is another way to avoid the error, but there may be other
cases where this problem happens and that fix won't help.  So let's
buy ourselves as much headroom as we can without rearchitecting
anything.

The comments claim that the old limit was 64GB, but it was really
only 32GB, because we didn't use all the bits in the page for bitmap
bits - only the largest power of 2 that could fit after deducting
space for the page header and so forth.  Thus, we have 4kB per page
for bitmap bits, not 8kB.  The new limit is thus actually 8 times the
old *real* limit but only 4 times the old *purported* limit.

Since this breaks on-disk compatibility, bump HASH_VERSION.  We've
already done this earlier in this release cycle, so this doesn't cause
any incremental inconvenience for people using pg_upgrade from
releases prior to v10.  However, users who use pg_upgrade to reach
10beta3 or later from 10beta2 or earlier will need to REINDEX any hash
indexes again.

Amit Kapila and Robert Haas

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20170704105728.mwb72jebfmok2nm2@zip.com.au
2017-08-04 16:30:32 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut bf6e4c3c82 Trim trailing whitespace 2017-06-12 09:51:18 -04:00
Robert Haas 9cc27566c1 Fix pgstattuple's handling of unused hash pages.
Hash indexes can contain both pages which are all-zeroes (i.e.
PageIsNew()) and pages which have been initialized but currently
aren't used.  The latter category can happen either when a page
has been reserved but not yet used or when it is used for a time
and then freed.  pgstattuple was only prepared to deal with the
pages that are actually-zeroes, which it called zero_pages.
Rename the column to unused_pages (extension version 1.5 is
as-yet-unreleased) and make it count both kinds of unused pages.

Along the way, slightly tidy up the way we test for pages of
various types.

Robert Haas and Ashutosh Sharma, reviewed by Amit Kapila

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAE9k0PkTtKFB3YndOyQMjwuHx+-FtUP1ynK8E-nHtetoow3NtQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-04-12 11:53:00 -04:00
Simon Riggs 25fff40798 Default monitoring roles
Three nologin roles with non-overlapping privs are created by default
* pg_read_all_settings - read all GUCs.
* pg_read_all_stats - pg_stat_*, pg_database_size(), pg_tablespace_size()
* pg_stat_scan_tables - may lock/scan tables

Top level role - pg_monitor includes all of the above by default, plus others

Author: Dave Page
Reviewed-by: Stephen Frost, Robert Haas, Peter Eisentraut, Simon Riggs
2017-03-30 14:18:53 -04:00
Robert Haas e759854a09 pgstattuple: Add pgstathashindex.
Since pgstattuple v1.5 hasn't been released yet, no need for a new
extension version.  The new function exposes statistics about hash
indexes similar to what other pgstatindex functions return for other
index types.

Ashutosh Sharma, reviewed by Kuntal Ghosh.  Substantial further
revisions by me.
2017-02-03 14:37:16 -05:00
Andrew Dunstan 71f996d221 Explain unaccounted for space in pgstattuple.
In addition to space accounted for by tuple_len, dead_tuple_len and
free_space, the table_len includes page overhead, the item pointers
table and padding bytes.

Backpatch to live branches.
2016-12-27 11:23:46 -05:00
Stephen Frost fd321a1dfd Remove superuser checks in pgstattuple
Now that we track initial privileges on extension objects and changes to
those permissions, we can drop the superuser() checks from the various
functions which are part of the pgstattuple extension and rely on the
GRANT system to control access to those functions.

Since a pg_upgrade will preserve the version of the extension which
existed prior to the upgrade, we can't simply modify the existing
functions but instead need to create new functions which remove the
checks and update the SQL-level functions to use the new functions
(and to REVOKE EXECUTE rights on those functions from PUBLIC).

Thanks to Tom and Andres for adding support for extensions to follow
update paths (see: 40b449a), allowing this patch to be much smaller
since no new base version script needed to be included.

Approach suggested by Noah.

Reviewed by Michael Paquier.
2016-09-29 22:13:38 -04:00
Tom Lane 48e6c943e5 Fix multiple bugs in contrib/pgstattuple's pgstatindex() function.
Dead or half-dead index leaf pages were incorrectly reported as live, as a
consequence of a code rearrangement I made (during a moment of severe brain
fade, evidently) in commit d287818eb5.

The index metapage was not counted in index_size, causing that result to
not agree with the actual index size on-disk.

Index root pages were not counted in internal_pages, which is inconsistent
compared to the case of a root that's also a leaf (one-page index), where
the root would be counted in leaf_pages.  Aside from that inconsistency,
this could lead to additional transient discrepancies between the reported
page counts and index_size, since it's possible for pgstatindex's scan to
see zero or multiple pages marked as BTP_ROOT, if the root moves due to
a split during the scan.  With these fixes, index_size will always be
exactly one page more than the sum of the displayed page counts.

Also, the index_size result was incorrectly documented as being measured in
pages; it's always been measured in bytes.  (While fixing that, I couldn't
resist doing some small additional wordsmithing on the pgstattuple docs.)

Including the metapage causes the reported index_size to not be zero for
an empty index.  To preserve the desired property that the pgstattuple
regression test results are platform-independent (ie, BLCKSZ configuration
independent), scale the index_size result in the regression tests.

The documentation issue was reported by Otsuka Kenji, and the inconsistent
root page counting by Peter Geoghegan; the other problems noted by me.
Back-patch to all supported branches, because this has been broken for
a long time.
2016-02-18 15:40:35 -05:00
Bruce Momjian e641d7b22f docs: HTML-escape '>' in '=>' using HTML entities 2015-08-05 23:03:45 -04:00
Fujii Masao cad3708960 Correct the names of pgstattuple_approx output columns in the doc. 2015-05-21 20:51:52 +09:00
Andres Freund 5850b20f58 Add pgstattuple_approx() to the pgstattuple extension.
The new function allows to estimate bloat and other table level statics
in a faster, but approximate, way. It does so by using information from
the free space map for pages marked as all visible in the visibility
map. The rest of the table is actually read and free space/bloat is
measured accurately.  In many cases that allows to get bloat information
much quicker, causing less IO.

Author: Abhijit Menon-Sen
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund, Amit Kapila and Tomas Vondra
Discussion: 20140402214144.GA28681@kea.toroid.org
2015-05-13 07:35:06 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 3a9d430af5 doc: Fix DocBook XML validity
The main problem is that DocBook SGML allows indexterm elements just
about everywhere, but DocBook XML is stricter.  For example, this common
pattern

    <varlistentry>
     <indexterm>...</indexterm>
     <term>...</term>
     ...
    </varlistentry>

needs to be changed to something like

    <varlistentry>
     <term>...<indexterm>...</indexterm></term>
     ...
    </varlistentry>

See also bb4eefe7bf.

There is currently nothing in the build system that enforces that things
stay valid, because that requires additional tools and will receive
separate consideration.
2014-05-06 21:28:58 -04:00
Robert Haas fd27b99919 pgstattuple: Doc update for previous commit.
In my previous change to make pgstattuple use SnapshotDirty rather
than SnapshotNow, I failed to notice that the documenation also
needed to be updated to match.  Fix.
2013-07-25 16:36:49 -04:00
Fujii Masao 1dc118660b Fix pgstattuple functions to use regclass-type as the argument.
This allows us to specify the target relation with several expressions,
'relname', 'schemaname.relname' and OID in all pgstattuple functions.
pgstatindex() and pg_relpages() could not accept OID as the argument
so far.

Per discussion on -hackers, we decided to keep two types of interfaces,
with regclass-type and TEXT-type argument, for each pgstattuple
function because of the backward-compatibility issue. The functions
which have TEXT-type argument will be deprecated in the future release.

Patch by Satoshi Nagayasu, reviewed by Rushabh Lathia and Fujii Masao.
2013-07-19 03:50:20 +09:00
Bruce Momjian 20a1b9e71b Add contrib function references in the doc index
Backpatch to 9.3.
Idea from Craig Ringer
2013-07-04 11:33:11 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 357cbaaeae Add pgstatginindex() function to get the size of the GIN pending list.
Fujii Masao, reviewed by Kyotaro Horiguchi.
2012-12-05 09:58:03 +02:00
Bruce Momjian e567c9ff34 Add xreflabels to /contrib manuals so links appear correct. Also update
README.links to explain xref properly.
2011-05-07 22:29:20 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 5d5678d7c3 Properly capitalize documentation headings; some only had initial-word
capitalization.
2011-01-29 13:01:48 -05:00
Magnus Hagander 9f2e211386 Remove cvs keywords from all files. 2010-09-20 22:08:53 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 5194b9d049 Spell and markup checking 2010-08-17 04:37:21 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 5148a04636 Add some links to tables 2010-08-10 20:42:01 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 66424a2848 Fix indentation of verbatim block elements
Block elements with verbatim formatting (literallayout, programlisting,
screen, synopsis) should be aligned at column 0 independent of the surrounding
SGML, because whitespace is significant, and indenting them creates erratic
whitespace in the output.  The CSS stylesheets already take care of indenting
the output.

Assorted markup improvements to go along with it.
2010-07-29 19:34:41 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 9c4c70321d Refer to tables by id, not by "the following table", because tables are in
theory floating elements.
2009-05-18 11:08:24 +00:00
Tom Lane d287818eb5 Adjust pgstatindex() to give correct answers for indexes larger than
2^31 blocks.  Also fix pg_relpages() for the same case.
Tatsuhito Kasahara
2008-03-21 03:23:30 +00:00
Tom Lane 8828689ae9 Make an editorial pass over the newly SGML-ified contrib documentation.
Fix lots of bad markup, bad English, bad explanations.

Second round of commits.  pgcrypto and pgstandby still to go...
2007-12-10 05:32:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6b8cc88268 Remove tabs from SGML files. 2007-11-11 14:23:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c3c69ab4fd Move most /contrib README files into SGML. Some still need conversion
or will never be converted.
2007-11-10 23:30:46 +00:00