Before commit 3fa2bb31 this type appeared in the catalogs to
select which of several block storage mechanisms each relation
used.
New features under development propose to revive the concept of
different block storage managers for new kinds of data accessed
via bufmgr.c, but don't need to put references to them in the
catalogs. So, avoid useless maintenance work on this type by
dropping it. Update some regression tests that were referencing
it where any type would do.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2BDE0mmiBZMtZyvwWtgv1sZCniSVhXYsXkvJ_Wo%2B83vvw%40mail.gmail.com
The modern incarnation of md.c is by no means specific to magnetic disk
technology, but every so often we hear from someone who's misled by the
label. Try to clarify that it will work for anything that supports
standard filesystem operations. Per suggestion from Andrew Dunstan.
of multiple forks, and each fork can be created and grown separately.
The bulk of this patch is about changing the smgr API to include an extra
ForkNumber argument in every smgr function. Also, smgrscheduleunlink and
smgrdounlink no longer implicitly call smgrclose, because other forks might
still exist after unlinking one. The callers of those functions have been
modified to call smgrclose instead.
This patch in itself doesn't have any user-visible effect, but provides the
infrastructure needed for upcoming patches. The additional forks envisioned
are a rewritten FSM implementation that doesn't rely on a fixed-size shared
memory block, and a visibility map to allow skipping portions of a table in
VACUUM that have no dead tuples.
the relcache, and so the notion of 'blind write' is gone. This should
improve efficiency in bgwriter and background checkpoint processes.
Internal restructuring in md.c to remove the not-very-useful array of
MdfdVec objects --- might as well just use pointers.
Also remove the long-dead 'persistent main memory' storage manager (mm.c),
since it seems quite unlikely to ever get resurrected.
Thomas Munro
Tom Lane
Magnus Hagander
Heikki Linnakangas
Bruce Momjian
PostgreSQL Daemon
Marc G. Fournier