Consistently set a flag variable that tracks whether the current heap
page has a dead item during lazy vacuum's heap scan. We missed the
common case where there is an preexisting (or even a new) LP_DEAD heap
line pointer.
Also make it clear that the variable might be affected by an existing
line pointer, say from an earlier opportunistic pruning operation. This
distinction is important because it's the main reason why we can't just
use the nearby tups_vacuumed variable instead.
No backpatch. In theory failing to set the page level flag variable had
no consequences. Currently it is only used to defensively check if a
page marked all visible has dead items, which should never happen anyway
(if it does then the table must be corrupt).
Author: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Diagnosed-By: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoAtZb4+HJT_8RoOXvu4HM-Zd4HKS3YSMCH6+-W=bDyh-w@mail.gmail.com
vacuumlazy.c sometimes fails to update pg_class entries for each index
(to ensure that pg_class.reltuples is current), even though analyze.c
assumed that that must have happened during VACUUM ANALYZE. There are
at least a couple of reasons for this. For example, vacuumlazy.c could
fail to update pg_class when the index AM indicated that its statistics
are merely an estimate, per the contract for amvacuumcleanup() routines
established by commit e57345975c back in 2006.
Stop assuming that pg_class must have been updated with accurate
statistics within VACUUM ANALYZE -- update pg_class for indexes at the
same time as the table relation in all cases. That way VACUUM ANALYZE
will never fail to keep pg_class.reltuples reasonably accurate.
The only downside of this approach (compared to the old approach) is
that it might inaccurately set pg_class.reltuples for indexes whose heap
relation ends up with the same inaccurate value anyway. This doesn't
seem too bad. We already consistently called vac_update_relstats() (to
update pg_class) for the heap/table relation twice during any VACUUM
ANALYZE -- once in vacuumlazy.c, and once in analyze.c. We now make
sure that we call vac_update_relstats() at least once (though often
twice) for each index.
This is follow up work to commit 9f3665fb, which dealt with issues in
btvacuumcleanup(). Technically this fixes an unrelated issue, though.
btvacuumcleanup() no longer provides an accurate num_index_tuples value
following commit 9f3665fb (when there was no btbulkdelete() call during
the VACUUM operation in question), but hashvacuumcleanup() has worked in
the same way for many years now.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzknxdComjhqo4SUxVFk_Q1171GJO2ZgHZ1Y6pion6u8rA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 13-, just like commit 9f3665fb.
In the current lazy vacuum implementation, some index AMs such as
btree indexes call lazy_tid_reaped() for each index tuple during
ambulkdelete to check if the index tuple points to the (collected)
garbage tuple. In that function, we simply call bsearch(), but we
should be able to know the result without bsearch() if the index tuple
points to the heap tuple that is out of range of the collected garbage
tuples. Therefore, add a simple bound check before resorting to
bsearch(). Testing has shown that this can give significant
performance benefits.
Author: Masahiko Sawada <masahiko.sawada@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CA+fd4k76j8jKzJzcx8UqEugvayaMSnQz0iLUt_XgBp-_-bd22A@mail.gmail.com
Teach VACUUM VERBOSE to report on pages deleted by the _current_ VACUUM
operation -- these are newly deleted pages. VACUUM VERBOSE continues to
report on the total number of deleted pages in the entire index (no
change there). The former is a subset of the latter.
The distinction between each category of deleted index page only arises
with index AMs where page deletion is supported and is decoupled from
page recycling for performance reasons.
This is follow-up work to commit e5d8a999, which made nbtree store
64-bit XIDs (not 32-bit XIDs) in pages at the point at which they're
deleted. Note that the btm_last_cleanup_num_delpages metapage field
added by that commit usually gets set to pages_newly_deleted. The
exceptions (the scenarios in which they're not equal) all seem to be
tricky cases for the implementation (of page deletion and recycling) in
general.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WznpdHvujGUwYZ8sihX%3Dd5u-tRYhi-F4wnV2uN2zHpMUXw%40mail.gmail.com
Both luckily and unluckily the passed values meant the same for all
types. Luckily because that meant my confusion caused no harm,
unluckily because otherwise the compiler might have warned...
In passing, synchronize parameter names between definition and
declaration.
Reported-By: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wz=L=nBoepQdH9b5Qd0nMvepFT2CnT6sjWvvpOXa=K8HVQ@mail.gmail.com
* Avoid pointlessly highlighting that an index vacuum was executed by a
parallel worker; user doesn't care.
* Don't give the impression that a non-concurrent reindex of an invalid
index on a TOAST table would work, because it wouldn't.
* Add a "translator:" comment for a mysterious message.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201107034943.GA16596@alvherre.pgsql
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Certain background workers initiate parallel queries while
debug_query_string==NULL, at which point they attempted strlen(NULL) and
died to SIGSEGV. Older debug_query_string observers allow NULL, so do
likewise in these newer ones. Back-patch to v11, where commit
7de4a1bcc5 introduced the first of these.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201014022636.GA1962668@rfd.leadboat.com
This fixes a bug in the edge case where, for a temp table, heap_page_prune()
can end up with a different horizon than heap_vacuum_rel(). Which can trigger
errors like "ERROR: cannot freeze committed xmax ...".
The bug was introduced due to interaction of a7212be8b9 "Set cutoff xmin more
aggressively when vacuuming a temporary table." with dc7420c2c9 "snapshot
scalability: Don't compute global horizons while building snapshots.".
The problem is caused by lazy_scan_heap() assuming that the only reason its
HeapTupleSatisfiesVacuum() call would return HEAPTUPLE_DEAD is if the tuple is
a HOT tuple, or if the tuple's inserting transaction has aborted since the
heap_page_prune() call. But after a7212be8b9 that was also possible in other
cases for temp tables, because heap_page_prune() uses a different visibility
test after dc7420c2c9.
The fix is fairly simple: Move the special case logic for temp tables from
vacuum_set_xid_limits() to the infrastructure introduced in dc7420c2c9. That
ensures that the horizon used for pruning is at least as aggressive as the one
used by lazy_scan_heap(). The concrete horizon used for temp tables is
slightly different than the logic in dc7420c2c9, but should always be as
aggressive as before (see comments).
A significant benefit to centralizing the logic procarray.c is that now the
more aggressive horizons for temp tables does not just apply to VACUUM but
also to e.g. HOT pruning and the nbtree killtuples logic.
Because isTopLevel is not needed by vacuum_set_xid_limits() anymore, I
undid the the related changes from a7212be8b9.
This commit also adds an isolation test ensuring that the more aggressive
vacuuming and pruning of temp tables keeps working.
Debugged-By: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Debugged-By: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Debugged-By: Ashutosh Sharma <ashu.coek88@gmail.com>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201014203103.72oke6hqywcyhx7s@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201015083735.derdzysdtqdvxshp@alap3.anarazel.de
Since other sessions aren't allowed to look into a temporary table
of our own session, we do not need to worry about the global xmin
horizon when setting the vacuum XID cutoff. Indeed, if we're not
inside a transaction block, we may set oldestXmin to be the next
XID, because there cannot be any in-doubt tuples in a temp table,
nor any tuples that are dead but still visible to some snapshot of
our transaction. (VACUUM, of course, is never inside a transaction
block; but we need to test that because CLUSTER shares the same code.)
This approach allows us to always clean out a temp table completely
during VACUUM, independently of concurrent activity. Aside from
being useful in its own right, that simplifies building reproducible
test cases.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3490536.1598629609@sss.pgh.pa.us
Historically, we've considered the state with relpages and reltuples
both zero as indicating that we do not know the table's tuple density.
This is problematic because it's impossible to distinguish "never yet
vacuumed" from "vacuumed and seen to be empty". In particular, a user
cannot use VACUUM or ANALYZE to override the planner's normal heuristic
that an empty table should not be believed to be empty because it is
probably about to get populated. That heuristic is a good safety
measure, so I don't care to abandon it, but there should be a way to
override it if the table is indeed intended to stay empty.
Hence, represent the initial state of ignorance by setting reltuples
to -1 (relpages is still set to zero), and apply the minimum-ten-pages
heuristic only when reltuples is still -1. If the table is empty,
VACUUM or ANALYZE (but not CREATE INDEX) will override that to
reltuples = relpages = 0, and then we'll plan on that basis.
This requires a bunch of fiddly little changes, but we can get rid of
some ugly kluges that were formerly needed to maintain the old definition.
One notable point is that FDWs' GetForeignRelSize methods will see
baserel->tuples = -1 when no ANALYZE has been done on the foreign table.
That seems like a net improvement, since those methods were formerly
also in the dark about what baserel->tuples = 0 really meant. Still,
it is an API change.
I bumped catversion because code predating this change would get confused
by seeing reltuples = -1.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/F02298E0-6EF4-49A1-BCB6-C484794D9ACC@thebuild.com
The additional information added will be an offset number for heap
operations. This information will help us in finding the exact tuple due
to which the error has occurred.
Author: Mahendra Singh Thalor and Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Sawada Masahiko, Justin Pryzby and Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKYtNApK488TDF4bMbw+1QH8HJf9cxdNDXquhU50TK5iv_FtCQ@mail.gmail.com
We were displaying the wrong phase information for 'info' message in the
index clean up phase because we were switching to the previous phase a bit
early. We were also not displaying context information for heap phase
unless the block number is valid which is fine for error cases but for
messages at 'info' or lower error level it appears to be inconsistent with
index phase information.
Reported-by: Sawada Masahiko
Author: Sawada Masahiko
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 13, where it was introduced
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+fd4k4HcbhPnCs7paRTw1K-AHin8y4xKomB9Ru0ATw0UeTy2w@mail.gmail.com
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
Use separate functions to save and restore error context information as
that made code easier to understand. Also, make it clear that the index
information required for error context is sane.
Author: Andres Freund, Justin Pryzby, Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 13, where it was introduced
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1LWo+v1OWu=Sky27GTGSCuOmr7iaURNbc5xz6jO+SaPeA@mail.gmail.com
In commit 33e05f89c5, we have added the option to display WAL usage
statistics in Explain and auto_explain. The display format used two spaces
between each field which is inconsistent with Buffer usage statistics which
is using one space between each field. Change the format to make WAL usage
statistics consistent with Buffer usage statistics.
This commit also changed the usage of "full page writes" to
"full page images" for WAL usage statistics to make it consistent with
other parts of code and docs.
Author: Julien Rouhaud, Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby, Kyotaro Horiguchi and Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB-hujrP8ZfUkvL5OYETipQwA=e3n7oqHFU=4ZLxWS_Cza3kQQ@mail.gmail.com
This allows gathering the WAL generation statistics for each statement
execution. The three statistics that we collect are the number of WAL
records, the number of full page writes and the amount of WAL bytes
generated.
This helps the users who have write-intensive workload to see the impact
of I/O due to WAL. This further enables us to see approximately what
percentage of overall WAL is due to full page writes.
In the future, we can extend this functionality to allow us to compute the
the exact amount of WAL data due to full page writes.
This patch in itself is just an infrastructure to compute WAL usage data.
The upcoming patches will expose this data via explain, auto_explain,
pg_stat_statements and verbose (auto)vacuum output.
Author: Kirill Bychik, Julien Rouhaud
Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar, Fujii Masao and Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB-hujrP8ZfUkvL5OYETipQwA=e3n7oqHFU=4ZLxWS_Cza3kQQ@mail.gmail.com
Commit 40d964ec99 allowed vacuum command to process indexes in parallel but
forgot to accumulate the buffer usage stats of parallel workers. This
allows leader backend to accumulate buffer usage stats of all the parallel
workers.
Reported-by: Julien Rouhaud
Author: Sawada Masahiko
Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar, Amit Kapila and Julien Rouhaud
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200328151721.GB12854@nol
vacuum code.
After commit b61d161c14, during vacuum, we cache the information of
relation name and relation namespace in local structure LVRelStats so that
we can use it in an error callback function. We can use the cached
information to avoid the calls to RelationGetRelationName(),
RelationGetNamespace() and get_namespace_name(). This is mainly for the
consistent in vacuum code path but it will avoid the extra syscache lookup
we do in get_namespace_name().
Author: Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20191120210600.GC30362@telsasoft.com
This reverts commit 2aa6e33, that added a fast path to skip
anti-wraparound and non-aggressive autovacuum jobs (these have no sense
as anti-wraparound implies aggressive). With a cluster using a high
amount of relations with a portion of them being heavily updated, this
could cause autovacuum to lock down, with autovacuum workers attempting
repeatedly those jobs on the same relations for the same database, that
just kept being skipped. This lock down can be solved with a manual
VACUUM FREEZE.
Justin King has reported one environment where the issue happened, and
Julien Rouhaud and I have been able to reproduce it in a second
environment. With a very aggressive autovacuum_freeze_max_age,
triggering those jobs with pgbench is a matter of minutes, and hitting
the lock down is a lot harder (my local tests failed to do that).
Note that anti-wraparound and non-aggressive jobs can only be triggered
on a subset of shared catalogs:
- pg_auth_members
- pg_authid
- pg_database
- pg_replication_origin
- pg_shseclabel
- pg_subscription
- pg_tablespace
While the lock down was possible down to v12, the root cause of those
jobs is a much older issue, which needs more analysis.
Bonus thanks to Andres Freund for the discussion.
Reported-by: Justin King
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAE39h22zPLrkH17GrkDgAYL3kbjvySYD1io+rtnAUFnaJJVS4g@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 12
The recheck isn't needed anymore, as RelationGetBufferForTuple() now
extends the relation with RBM_ZERO_AND_LOCK. Previously we needed to
handle the fact that relation extension extended the relation and then
separately acquired a lock on the page - while expecting that the page
is empty.
Reported-By: Ranier Vilela
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEudQArA_=J0D5T258xsCY6Xtf6wiH4b=QDPDgVS+WZUN10WDw@mail.gmail.com
The additional information displayed will be block number for error
occurring while processing heap and index name for error occurring
while processing the index.
This will help us in diagnosing the problems that occur during a vacuum.
For ex. due to corruption (either caused by bad hardware or by some bug)
if we get some error while vacuuming, it can help us identify the block
in heap and or additional index information.
It sets up an error context callback to display additional information
with the error. During different phases of vacuum (heap scan, heap
vacuum, index vacuum, index clean up, heap truncate), we update the error
context callback to display appropriate information. We can extend it to
a bit more granular level like adding the phases for FSM operations or for
prefetching the blocks while truncating. However, I felt that it requires
adding many more error callback function calls and can make the code a bit
complex, so left those for now.
Author: Justin Pryzby, with few changes by Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera, Amit Kapila, Andres Freund, Michael Paquier
and Sawada Masahiko
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20191120210600.GC30362@telsasoft.com
VACUUM may truncate heap in several batches. The activity report
is logged for each batch, and contains the number of pages in the table
before and after the truncation, and also the elapsed time during
the truncation. Previously the elapsed time reported in each batch was
the total elapsed time since starting the truncation until finishing
each batch. For example, if the truncation was processed dividing into
three batches, the second batch reported the accumulated time elapsed
during both first and second batches. This is strange and confusing
because the number of pages in the table reported together is not
total. Instead, each batch should report the time elapsed during
only that batch.
The cause of this issue was that the resource usage snapshot was
initialized only at the beginning of the truncation and was never
reset later. This commit fixes the issue by changing VACUUM so that
the resource usage snapshot is reset at each batch.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Reported-by: Tatsuhito Kasahara
Author: Tatsuhito Kasahara
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAP0=ZVJsf=NvQuy+QXQZ7B=ZVLoDV_JzsVC1FRsF1G18i3zMGg@mail.gmail.com
Using 32 bit counters means they can now realistically wrap around when
vacuuming extremely large tables. Because they're signed integers,
stats printed by vacuum look very odd when they do.
We'd love to backpatch this, but refrain because the variables are
exported and could cause third-party code to break.
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud, Tom Lane, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200131205926.GA16367@alvherre.pgsql
In commit 40d964ec99, we changed the way memory is allocated for dead
tuples but forgot to update the place where we compute the maximum
number of dead tuples. This could lead to invalid memory requests.
Reported-by: Andres Freund
Diagnosed-by: Andres Freund
Author: Masahiko Sawada
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila and Dilip Kumar
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200121060020.e3cr7s7fj5rw4lok@alap3.anarazel.de
This feature allows the vacuum to leverage multiple CPUs in order to
process indexes. This enables us to perform index vacuuming and index
cleanup with background workers. This adds a PARALLEL option to VACUUM
command where the user can specify the number of workers that can be used
to perform the command which is limited by the number of indexes on a
table. Specifying zero as a number of workers will disable parallelism.
This option can't be used with the FULL option.
Each index is processed by at most one vacuum process. Therefore parallel
vacuum can be used when the table has at least two indexes.
The parallel degree is either specified by the user or determined based on
the number of indexes that the table has, and further limited by
max_parallel_maintenance_workers. The index can participate in parallel
vacuum iff it's size is greater than min_parallel_index_scan_size.
Author: Masahiko Sawada and Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar, Amit Kapila, Robert Haas, Tomas Vondra,
Mahendra Singh and Sergei Kornilov
Tested-by: Mahendra Singh and Prabhat Sahu
Discussion:
https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoDTPMgzSkV4E3SFo1CH_x50bf5PqZFQf4jmqjk-C03BWg@mail.gmail.comhttps://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1J-VoR9gzS5E75pcD-OH0mEyCdp8RihcwKrcuw7J-Q0+w@mail.gmail.com
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
The part in charge of doing the vacuum on all the indexes of a relation
was duplicated, with the same handling for progress reporting done.
While on it, update the progress reporting for heap vacuuming in the
subroutine doing the actual work, keeping the status update local. This
way, any future caller of lazy_vacuum_heap() does not have to worry
about doing any progress reporting update.
Author: Justin Pryzby, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191120210600.GC30362@telsasoft.com
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
This has been introduced by c16dc1a since progress reporting for VACUUM
has been added. As this issue just causes some extra work and is
harmless, no backpatch is done.
Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191213030831.GT2082@telsasoft.com
This is still using the 2.0 version of pg_bsd_indent.
I thought it would be good to commit this separately,
so as to document the differences between 2.0 and 2.1 behavior.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16296.1558103386@sss.pgh.pa.us
The term "item pointer" should not be used to refer to ItemIdData
variables, since that is needlessly ambiguous. Only
ItemPointerData/ItemPointer variables should be called item pointers.
To fix, establish the convention that ItemIdData variables should always
be referred to either as "item identifiers" or "line pointers". The
term "item identifier" already predominates in docs and translatable
messages, and so should be the preferred alternative there.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wz=c=MZQjUzde3o9+2PLAPuHTpVZPPdYxN=E4ndQ2--8ew@mail.gmail.com
This commit adds new parameter to VACUUM command, TRUNCATE,
which specifies that VACUUM should attempt to truncate off
any empty pages at the end of the table and allow the disk space
for the truncated pages to be returned to the operating system.
This parameter, if specified, overrides the vacuum_truncate
reloption. If neither the reloption nor the VACUUM option is
used, the default is true, as before.
Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud, Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoD+qtrSDL=GSma4Wd3kLYLeRC0hPna-YAdkDeV4z156vg@mail.gmail.com
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
The new nleft_dead_tuples and nleft_dead_itemids fields are confusing
and do not seem like the correct way forward. One of them is tested
via an assertion that can fail, as it has already done on buildfarm
member topminnow. Remove the assertion and the fields.
Change the logic for the case where a tuple is not initially pruned
by heap_page_prune but later diagnosed HEAPTUPLE_DEAD by
HeapTupleSatisfiesVacuum. Previously, tupgone = true was set in
that case, which leads to treating the tuple as one that will be
removed. In a normal vacuum, that's OK, because we'll remove
index entries for it and then the second heap pass will remove the
tuple itself, but when index cleanup is disabled, those things
don't happen, so we must instead treat it as a recently-dead
tuple that we have voluntarily chosen to keep.
Report and analysis by Tom Lane. This patch loosely based on one
from Masahiko Sawada, but I changed most of it.
This allows table AMs that don't need these horizons. This was already
documented in the tableam relation_set_new_filenode callback, but an
assert prevented if from actually working (the test AM code contained
the change itself). Defang the asserts in the general code, and move
the stronger ones into heap AM.
Relatedly, after CLUSTER/VACUUM, we'd always assign a relfrozenxid /
relminmxid. Change the table_relation_copy_for_cluster() interface to
allow the AM to overwrite the horizons that get set on the pg_class
entry. This'd also in the future allow AMs like heap to compute a
relfrozenxid during rewrite that's the table's actual minimum rather
than a pre-determined value. Arguably it'd have been better to move
the whole computation / setting of those values into the callback, but
it seems likely that for other reasons it'd be better to be able to
use one value to vacuum/cluster multiple tables (e.g. a toast's
horizon shouldn't be different than the table's).
Reported-By: Heikki Linnakangas
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9a7fb9cc-2419-5db7-8840-ddc10c93f122@iki.fi
vacuum_truncate controls whether vacuum tries to truncate off
any empty pages at the end of the table. Previously vacuum always
tried to do the truncation. However, the truncation could cause
some problems; for example, ACCESS EXCLUSIVE lock needs to
be taken on the table during the truncation and can cause
the query cancellation on the standby even if hot_standby_feedback
is true. Setting this reloption to false can be helpful to avoid
such problems.
Author: Tsunakawa Takayuki
Reviewed-By: Julien Rouhaud, Masahiko Sawada, Michael Paquier, Kirk Jamison and Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHGQGwE5UqFqSq1=kV3QtTUtXphTdyHA-8rAj4A=Y+e4kyp3BQ@mail.gmail.com
This commit adds a new reloption, vacuum_index_cleanup, which
controls whether index cleanup is performed for a particular
relation by default. It also adds a new option to the VACUUM
command, INDEX_CLEANUP, which can be used to override the
reloption. If neither the reloption nor the VACUUM option is
used, the default is true, as before.
Masahiko Sawada, reviewed and tested by Nathan Bossart, Alvaro
Herrera, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Darafei Praliaskouski, and me.
The wording of the documentation is mostly due to me.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoAt5R3DNUZSjOoXDUY=naYPUOuffVsRzuTYMz29yLzQCA@mail.gmail.com
Valgrind was rightly complaining that IndexVacuumInfo->report_progress
(added by commit ab0dfc961b) was not being initialized in some code
paths. Repair.
Per buildfarm member lousyjack.
An anti-wraparound vacuum has to be by definition aggressive as it needs
to work on all the pages of a relation. However it can happen that due
to some concurrent activity an anti-wraparound vacuum is marked as
non-aggressive, which makes it redundant with a previous run, and
it is actually useless as an anti-wraparound vacuum should process all
the pages of a relation. This commit makes such vacuums to be skipped.
An anti-wraparound vacuum not aggressive can be found easily by mixing
low values of autovacuum_freeze_max_age (to control anti-wraparound) and
autovacuum_freeze_table_age (to control the aggressiveness).
28a8fa9 has added some extra logging printing all the possible
combinations of anti-wraparound and aggressive vacuums, which now gets
simplified as an anti-wraparound vacuum also non-aggressive gets
skipped.
Per discussion mainly between Andrew Dunstan, Robert Haas, Álvaro
Herrera, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Masahiko Sawada, and myself.
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan, Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180914153554.562muwr3uwujno75@alvherre.pgsql
Many places need both, so this allows a few functions to take one
fewer parameter. More importantly, as soon as we add a VACUUM
option that takes a non-Boolean parameter, we need to replace
'int options' with a struct, and it seems better to think
of adding more fields to VacuumParams rather than passing around
both VacuumParams and a separate struct as well.
Patch by me, reviewed by Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmob6g6-s50fyv8E8he7APfwCYYJ4z0wbZC2yZeSz=26CYQ@mail.gmail.com
Previously, all heaps had FSMs. For very small tables, this means that the
FSM took up more space than the heap did. This is wasteful, so now we
refrain from creating the FSM for heaps with 4 pages or fewer. If the last
known target block has insufficient space, we still try to insert into some
other page before giving up and extending the relation, since doing
otherwise leads to table bloat. Testing showed that trying every page
penalized performance slightly, so we compromise and try every other page.
This way, we visit at most two pages. Any pages with wasted free space
become visible at next relation extension, so we still control table bloat.
As a bonus, directly attempting one or two pages can even be faster than
consulting the FSM would have been.
Once the FSM is created for a heap we don't remove it even if somebody
deletes all the rows from the corresponding relation. We don't think it is
a useful optimization as it is quite likely that relation will again grow
to the same size.
Author: John Naylor, Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Tested-by: Mithun C Y
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAJVSVGWvB13PzpbLEecFuGFc5V2fsO736BsdTakPiPAcdMM5tQ@mail.gmail.com
Previously we initialized pages when bulk extending in
RelationAddExtraBlocks(). That has a major disadvantage: It ties
RelationAddExtraBlocks() to heap, as other types of storage are likely
to need different amounts of special space, have different amount of
free space (previously determined by PageGetHeapFreeSpace()).
That we're relying on initializing pages, but not WAL logging the
initialization, also means the risk for getting
"WARNING: relation \"%s\" page %u is uninitialized --- fixing"
style warnings in vacuums after crashes/immediate shutdowns, is
considerably higher. The warning sounds much more serious than what
they are.
Fix those two issues together by not initializing pages in
RelationAddExtraPages() (but continue to do so in
RelationGetBufferForTuple(), which is linked much more closely to
heap), and accepting uninitialized pages as normal in
vacuumlazy.c. When vacuumlazy encounters an empty page it now adds it
to the FSM, but does nothing else. We chose to not issue a debug
message, much less a warning in that case - it seems rarely useful,
and quite likely to scare people unnecessarily.
For now empty pages aren't added to the VM, because standbys would not
re-discover such pages after a promotion. In contrast to other sources
for empty pages, there's no corresponding WAL records triggering FSM
updates during replay.
Previously when extending the relation, there was a moment between
extending the relation, and acquiring an exclusive lock on the new
page, in which another backend could lock the page. To avoid new
content being put on that new page, vacuumlazy needed to acquire the
extension lock for a brief moment when encountering a new page. A
second corner case, only working somewhat by accident, was that
RelationGetBufferForTuple() sometimes checks the last page in a
relation for free space, without consulting the FSM; that only worked
because PageGetHeapFreeSpace() interprets the zero page header in a
new page as no free space. The lack of handling this properly
required reverting the previous attempt in 684200543b.
This issue can be solved by using RBM_ZERO_AND_LOCK when extending the
relation, thereby avoiding this window. There's some added complexity
when RelationGetBufferForTuple() is called with another buffer (for
updates), to avoid deadlocks, but that's rarely hit at runtime.
Author: Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181219083945.6khtgm36mivonhva@alap3.anarazel.de
This reverts commit fc02e6724f and
e6799d5a53.
Parts of the buildfarm error out with
ERROR: page %u of relation "%s" should be empty but is not
errors, and so far I/we do not know why. fc02e672 didn't fix the
issue. As I cannot reproduce the issue locally, it seems best to get
the buildfarm green again, and reproduce the issue without time
pressure.
In e6799d5a53 I removed vacuumlazy.c trickery around re-checking
whether a page is actually empty after acquiring an extension lock on
the relation, because the page is not PageInit()ed anymore, and
entries in the FSM ought not to lead to user-visible errors.
As reported by various buildfarm animals that is not correct, given
the way to code currently stands: If vacuum processes a page that's
just been newly added by either RelationGetBufferForTuple() or
RelationAddExtraBlocks(), it could add that page to the FSM and it
could be reused by other backends, before those two functions check
whether the newly added page is actually new. That's a relatively
narrow race, but several buildfarm machines appear to be able to hit
it.
While it seems wrong that the FSM, given it's lack of durability and
approximative nature, can trigger errors like this, that seems better
fixed in a separate commit. Especially given that a good portion of
the buildfarm is red, and this is just re-introducing logic that
existed a few hours ago.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190128222259.zhi7ovzgtkft6em6@alap3.anarazel.de
Previously we initialized pages when bulk extending in
RelationAddExtraBlocks(). That has a major disadvantage: It ties
RelationAddExtraBlocks() to heap, as other types of storage are likely
to need different amounts of special space, have different amount of
free space (previously determined by PageGetHeapFreeSpace()).
That we're relying on initializing pages, but not WAL logging the
initialization, also means the risk for getting
"WARNING: relation \"%s\" page %u is uninitialized --- fixing"
style warnings in vacuums after crashes/immediate shutdowns, is
considerably higher. The warning sounds much more serious than what
they are.
Fix those two issues together by not initializing pages in
RelationAddExtraPages() (but continue to do so in
RelationGetBufferForTuple(), which is linked much more closely to
heap), and accepting uninitialized pages as normal in
vacuumlazy.c. When vacuumlazy encounters an empty page it now adds it
to the FSM, but does nothing else. We chose to not issue a debug
message, much less a warning in that case - it seems rarely useful,
and quite likely to scare people unnecessarily.
For now empty pages aren't added to the VM, because standbys would not
re-discover such pages after a promotion. In contrast to other sources
for empty pages, there's no corresponding WAL records triggering FSM
updates during replay.
Author: Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181219083945.6khtgm36mivonhva@alap3.anarazel.de
Previously, all heaps had FSMs. For very small tables, this means that the
FSM took up more space than the heap did. This is wasteful, so now we
refrain from creating the FSM for heaps with 4 pages or fewer. If the last
known target block has insufficient space, we still try to insert into some
other page before giving up and extending the relation, since doing
otherwise leads to table bloat. Testing showed that trying every page
penalized performance slightly, so we compromise and try every other page.
This way, we visit at most two pages. Any pages with wasted free space
become visible at next relation extension, so we still control table bloat.
As a bonus, directly attempting one or two pages can even be faster than
consulting the FSM would have been.
Once the FSM is created for a heap we don't remove it even if somebody
deletes all the rows from the corresponding relation. We don't think it is
a useful optimization as it is quite likely that relation will again grow
to the same size.
Author: John Naylor with design inputs and some code contribution by Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Tested-by: Mithun C Y
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAJVSVGWvB13PzpbLEecFuGFc5V2fsO736BsdTakPiPAcdMM5tQ@mail.gmail.com
Given these routines are heap specific, and that there will be more
generic visibility support in via table AM, it makes sense to move the
prototypes to heapam.h (routines like HeapTupleSatisfiesVacuum will
not be exposed in a generic fashion, because they are too storage
specific).
Similarly, the code in tqual.c is specific to heap, so moving it into
access/heap/ makes sense.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180703070645.wchpu5muyto5n647@alap3.anarazel.de
Peter Geoghegan
Peter Eisentraut
Andres Freund
Bruce Momjian
Alvaro Herrera
Noah Misch
Tom Lane
Amit Kapila
Michael Paquier
Fujii Masao
Robert Haas