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, 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
Commit 8b08f7d482 failed to update these modules to at least give
non-broken error messages for partitioned indexes. Add appropriate
error support to them.
Peter G. was complaining about a problem of unfriendly error messages;
while we haven't fixed that yet, subsequent discussion let to discovery
of these unhandled cases.
Author: Michaël Paquier
Reported-by: Peter Geoghegan
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkOKptQiE51Bh4_xeEHhaBwHkZkGtKizrFMgEkfUuRRQg@mail.gmail.com
Instead of using our standard macro for this calculation, this code
did it itself ... and got it wrong, leading to incorrect display of
the null bitmap in some cases. Noted and fixed by Maksim Milyutin.
In passing, remove a uselessly duplicative error check.
Errors were introduced in commit d6061f83a; back-patch to 9.6
where that came in.
Maksim Milyutin, reviewed by Andrey Borodin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ec295792-a69f-350f-6287-25a20e8f31d5@gmail.com
The contrib extensions pageinspect, pg_visibility and pgstattuple only
work against regular relations which have storage. They don't work
against foreign tables, partitioned (parent) tables, views, et al.
Add checks to the user-callable functions to return a useful error
message to the user if they mistakenly pass an invalid relation to a
function which doesn't accept that kind of relation.
In passing, improve some of the existing checks to use ereport() instead
of elog(), add a function to consolidate common checks where
appropriate, and add some regression tests.
Author: Amit Langote, with various changes by me
Reviewed by: Michael Paquier and Corey Huinker
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ab91fd9d-4751-ee77-c87b-4dd704c1e59c@lab.ntt.co.jp
Amit Kapila
Alvaro Herrera
Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut
Stephen Frost