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Heikki Linnakangas b8bff07daa Make ResourceOwners more easily extensible.
Instead of having a separate array/hash for each resource kind, use a
single array and hash to hold all kinds of resources. This makes it
possible to introduce new resource "kinds" without having to modify
the ResourceOwnerData struct. In particular, this makes it possible
for extensions to register custom resource kinds.

The old approach was to have a small array of resources of each kind,
and if it fills up, switch to a hash table. The new approach also uses
an array and a hash, but now the array and the hash are used at the
same time. The array is used to hold the recently added resources, and
when it fills up, they are moved to the hash. This keeps the access to
recent entries fast, even when there are a lot of long-held resources.

All the resource-specific ResourceOwnerEnlarge*(),
ResourceOwnerRemember*(), and ResourceOwnerForget*() functions have
been replaced with three generic functions that take resource kind as
argument. For convenience, we still define resource-specific wrapper
macros around the generic functions with the old names, but they are
now defined in the source files that use those resource kinds.

The release callback no longer needs to call ResourceOwnerForget on
the resource being released. ResourceOwnerRelease unregisters the
resource from the owner before calling the callback. That needed some
changes in bufmgr.c and some other files, where releasing the
resources previously always called ResourceOwnerForget.

Each resource kind specifies a release priority, and
ResourceOwnerReleaseAll releases the resources in priority order. To
make that possible, we have to restrict what you can do between
phases. After calling ResourceOwnerRelease(), you are no longer
allowed to remember any more resources in it or to forget any
previously remembered resources by calling ResourceOwnerForget.  There
was one case where that was done previously. At subtransaction commit,
AtEOSubXact_Inval() would handle the invalidation messages and call
RelationFlushRelation(), which temporarily increased the reference
count on the relation being flushed. We now switch to the parent
subtransaction's resource owner before calling AtEOSubXact_Inval(), so
that there is a valid ResourceOwner to temporarily hold that relcache
reference.

Other end-of-xact routines make similar calls to AtEOXact_Inval()
between release phases, but I didn't see any regression test failures
from those, so I'm not sure if they could reach a codepath that needs
remembering extra resources.

There were two exceptions to how the resource leak WARNINGs on commit
were printed previously: llvmjit silently released the context without
printing the warning, and a leaked buffer io triggered a PANIC. Now
everything prints a WARNING, including those cases.

Add tests in src/test/modules/test_resowner.

Reviewed-by: Aleksander Alekseev, Michael Paquier, Julien Rouhaud
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Hayato Kuroda, Álvaro Herrera, Zhihong Yu
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut, Andres Freund
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/cbfabeb0-cd3c-e951-a572-19b365ed314d%40iki.fi
2023-11-08 13:30:50 +02:00
Heikki Linnakangas b70c2143bb Move a few ResourceOwnerEnlarge() calls for safety and clarity.
These are functions where a lot of things happen between the
ResourceOwnerEnlarge and ResourceOwnerRemember calls. It's important
that there are no unrelated ResourceOwnerRemember calls in the code in
between, otherwise the reserved entry might be used up by the
intervening ResourceOwnerRemember and not be available at the intended
ResourceOwnerRemember call anymore. I don't see any bugs here, but the
longer the code path between the calls is, the harder it is to verify.

In bufmgr.c, there is a function similar to ResourceOwnerEnlarge,
ReservePrivateRefCountEntry(), to ensure that the private refcount
array has enough space. The ReservePrivateRefCountEntry() calls were
made at different places than the ResourceOwnerEnlargeBuffers()
calls. Move the ResourceOwnerEnlargeBuffers() and
ReservePrivateRefCountEntry() calls together for consistency.

Reviewed-by: Aleksander Alekseev, Michael Paquier, Julien Rouhaud
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Hayato Kuroda, Álvaro Herrera, Zhihong Yu
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut, Andres Freund
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/cbfabeb0-cd3c-e951-a572-19b365ed314d%40iki.fi
2023-11-08 13:30:46 +02:00
Michael Paquier 96f052613f Introduce pg_stat_checkpointer
Historically, the statistics of the checkpointer have been always part
of pg_stat_bgwriter.  This commit removes a few columns from
pg_stat_bgwriter, and introduces pg_stat_checkpointer with equivalent,
renamed columns (plus a new one for the reset timestamp):
- checkpoints_timed -> num_timed
- checkpoints_req -> num_requested
- checkpoint_write_time -> write_time
- checkpoint_sync_time -> sync_time
- buffers_checkpoint -> buffers_written

The fields of PgStat_CheckpointerStats and its SQL functions are renamed
to match with the new field names, for consistency.  Note that
background writer and checkpointer have been split into two different
processes in commits 806a2aee37 and bf405ba8e4.  The pgstat
structures were already split, making this change straight-forward.

Bump catalog version.

Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot, Andres Freund, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACVxX2ii=66RypXRweZe2EsBRiPMj0aHfRfHUeXJcC7kHg@mail.gmail.com
2023-10-30 09:47:16 +09:00
Jeff Davis 00d7fb5e2e Assert that buffers are marked dirty before XLogRegisterBuffer().
Enforce the rule from transam/README in XLogRegisterBuffer(), and
update callers to follow the rule.

Hash indexes sometimes register clean pages as a part of the locking
protocol, so provide a REGBUF_NO_CHANGE flag to support that use.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c84114f8-c7f1-5b57-f85a-3adc31e1a904@iki.fi
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas
2023-10-23 17:17:46 -07:00
Peter Eisentraut 9847ca2c79 Standardize type of extend_by counter
The counter of extend_by loops is mixed int and uint32.  Fix by
standardizing from int to uint32, to match the extend_by variable.

Fixup for 31966b151e.

Author: Ranier Vilela <ranier.vf@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Gurjeet Singh <gurjeet@singh.im>
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAEudQAqHG-JP-YnG54ftL_b7v6-57rMKwET_MSvEoen0UHuPig@mail.gmail.com
2023-09-19 09:46:01 +02:00
Andres Freund 7369798a83 Fix tracking of temp table relation extensions as writes
Karina figured out that I (Andres) confused BufferUsage.temp_blks_written with
BufferUsage.local_blks_written in fcdda1e4b5.

Tests in core PG can't easily test this, as BufferUsage is just used for
EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS) and pg_stat_statements. Thus this commit adds tests
for this to pg_stat_statements.

Reported-by: Karina Litskevich <litskevichkarina@gmail.com>
Author: Karina Litskevich <litskevichkarina@gmail.com>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACiT8ibxXA6+0amGikbeFhm8B84XdQVo6D0Qfd1pQ1s8zpsnxQ@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 16-, where fcdda1e4b5 was merged
2023-09-13 19:14:09 -07:00
Thomas Munro 0da096d78e Fix recovery conflict SIGUSR1 handling.
We shouldn't be doing non-trivial work in signal handlers in general,
and in this case the handler could reach unsafe code and corrupt state.
It also clobbered its own "reason" code.

Move all recovery conflict decision logic into the next
CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS(), and have the signal handler just set flags and
the latch, following the standard pattern.  Since there are several
different "reasons", use a separate flag for each.

With this refactoring, the recovery conflict system no longer
piggy-backs on top of the regular query cancelation mechanism, but
instead raises an error directly if it decides that is necessary.  It
still needs to respect QueryCancelHoldoffCount, because otherwise the
FEBE protocol might get out of sync (see commit 2b3a8b20c2).

This fixes one class of intermittent failure in the new
031_recovery_conflict.pl test added by commit 9f8a050f, though the buggy
coding is much older.  Failures outside contrived testing seem to be
very rare (or perhaps incorrectly attributed) in the field, based on
lack of reports.

No back-patch for now due to complexity and release schedule.  We have
the option to back-patch into 16 later, as 16 has prerequisite commit
bea3d7e.

Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> (earlier version)
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> (earlier version)
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> (earlier version)
Tested-by: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGK3PGKwcKqzoosamn36YW-fsuTdOPPF1i_rtEO%3DnEYKSg%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACVr8au2J_9D88UfRCi0JdWhyQDDxAcSVav0B0irx9nXEg%40mail.gmail.com
2023-09-07 12:39:24 +12:00
Thomas Munro f691f5b80a Remove the "snapshot too old" feature.
Remove the old_snapshot_threshold setting and mechanism for producing
the error "snapshot too old", originally added by commit 848ef42b.
Unfortunately it had a number of known problems in terms of correctness
and performance, mostly reported by Andres in the course of his work on
snapshot scalability.  We agreed to remove it, after a long period
without an active plan to fix it.

This is certainly a desirable feature, and someone might propose a new
or improved implementation in the future.

Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACG%3DezYV%2BEvO135fLRdVn-ZusfVsTY6cH1OZqWtezuEYH6ciQA%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200401064008.qob7bfnnbu4w5cw4%40alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BTgmoY%3Daqf0zjTD%2B3dUWYkgMiNDegDLFjo%2B6ze%3DWtpik%2B3XqA%40mail.gmail.com
2023-09-05 19:53:43 +12:00
Thomas Munro 7114791158 ExtendBufferedWhat -> BufferManagerRelation.
Commit 31966b15 invented a way for functions dealing with relation
extension to accept a Relation in online code and an SMgrRelation in
recovery code.  It seems highly likely that future bufmgr.c interfaces
will face the same problem, and need to do something similar.
Generalize the names so that each interface doesn't have to re-invent
the wheel.

Back-patch to 16.  Since extension AM authors might start using the
constructor macros once 16 ships, we agreed to do the rename in 16
rather than waiting for 17.

Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2B6tLD2BhpRWycEoti6LVLyQq457UL4ticP5xd8LqHySA%40mail.gmail.com
2023-08-23 12:31:23 +12:00
Andres Freund f3bc519288 Fix off-by-one in LimitAdditionalPins()
Due to the bug LimitAdditionalPins() could return 0, violating
LimitAdditionalPins()'s API ("One additional pin is always allowed"). This
could be hit when setting shared_buffers very low and using a fair amount of
concurrency.

This bug was introduced in 31966b151e.

Author: "Anton A. Melnikov" <aamelnikov@inbox.ru>
Reported-by: "Anton A. Melnikov" <aamelnikov@inbox.ru>
Reported-by: Victoria Shepard
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ae46f2fb-5586-3de0-b54b-1bb0f6410ebd@inbox.ru
Backpatch: 16-
2023-07-24 19:07:52 -07:00
Michael Paquier 2aeaf80e57 Refactor some code related to wait events "BufferPin" and "Extension"
The following changes are done:
- Addition of WaitEventBufferPin and WaitEventExtension, that hold a
list of wait events related to each category.
- Addition of two functions that encapsulate the list of wait events for
each category.
- Rename BUFFER_PIN to BUFFERPIN (only this wait event class used an
underscore, requiring a specific rule in the automation script).

These changes make a bit easier the automatic generation of all the code
and documentation related to wait events, as all the wait event
categories are now controlled by consistent structures and functions.

Author: Bertrand Drouvot
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c6f35117-4b20-4c78-1df5-d3056010dcf5@gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/77a86b3a-c4a8-5f5d-69b9-d70bbf2e9b98@gmail.com
2023-07-03 11:01:02 +09:00
Andres Freund eabb22525e Remove over-eager assertion in ExtendBufferedRelTo()
The assertion checked that the size of the relation is not "too large" - but
the code is explicitly dealing with the possibility of another backend
extending the relation concurrently. In that case the new relation size could
be bigger than what the current backend needs, wrongly triggering an assertion
failure.

Unfortunately it is hard to write a reliable and affordable regression tests
for this, as a lot of concurrency is needed to encounter the bug.

Introduced in 31966b151e.

Reported-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
2023-05-21 09:53:49 -07:00
Tom Lane 0245f8db36 Pre-beta mechanical code beautification.
Run pgindent, pgperltidy, and reformat-dat-files.

This set of diffs is a bit larger than typical.  We've updated to
pg_bsd_indent 2.1.2, which properly indents variable declarations that
have multi-line initialization expressions (the continuation lines are
now indented one tab stop).  We've also updated to perltidy version
20230309 and changed some of its settings, which reduces its desire to
add whitespace to lines to make assignments etc. line up.  Going
forward, that should make for fewer random-seeming changes to existing
code.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230428092545.qfb3y5wcu4cm75ur@alvherre.pgsql
2023-05-19 17:24:48 -04:00
Andres Freund 093e5c57d5 Add writeback to pg_stat_io
28e626bde0 added the concept of IOOps but neglected to include writeback
operations. ac8d53dae5 added time spent doing these I/O operations. Without
counting writeback, checkpointer write time in the log often differed
substantially from that in pg_stat_io. To fix this, add IOOp IOOP_WRITEBACK
and track writeback in pg_stat_io.

Bumps catversion.

Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230419172326.dhgyo4wrrhulovt6%40awork3.anarazel.de
2023-05-17 11:18:35 -07:00
Andres Freund 52676dc2e0 Update parameter name context to wb_context
For clarity of review, renaming the function parameter "context" in
ScheduleBufferTagForWriteback() and IssuePendingWritebacks() to
"wb_context" is a separate commit. The next commit adds an "io_context"
parameter and "wb_context" makes it more clear which is which.

Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_acc6iL4M3hvOTeztf_ZPpsB3Pqio5aVHgZ5q=Pi3BZKg@mail.gmail.com
2023-05-17 11:18:30 -07:00
David Rowley b4dbf3e924 Fix various typos
This fixes many spelling mistakes in comments, but a few references to
invalid parameter names, function names and option names too in comments
and also some in string constants

Also, fix an #undef that was undefining the incorrect definition

Author: Alexander Lakhin
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d5f68d19-c0fc-91a9-118d-7c6a5a3f5fad@gmail.com
2023-04-18 13:23:23 +12:00
Andres Freund 43a33ef54e Support RBM_ZERO_AND_CLEANUP_LOCK in ExtendBufferedRelTo(), add tests
For some reason I had not implemented RBM_ZERO_AND_CLEANUP_LOCK support in
ExtendBufferedRelTo(), likely thinking it not being reachable. But it is
reachable, e.g. when replaying a WAL record for a page in a relation that
subsequently is truncated (likely only reachable when doing crash recovery or
PITR, not during ongoing streaming replication).

As now all of the RBM_* modes are supported, remove assertions checking mode.

As we had no test coverage for this scenario, add a new TAP test. There's
plenty more that ought to be tested in this area...

Reported-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/392271.1681238924%40sss.pgh.pa.us
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0b5eb82b-cb99-e0a4-b932-3dc60e2e3926@gmail.com
2023-04-14 11:30:33 -07:00
Peter Geoghegan d6f0f95a6b Harmonize some more function parameter names.
Make sure that function declarations use names that exactly match the
corresponding names from function definitions in a few places.  These
inconsistencies were all introduced relatively recently, after the code
base had parameter name mismatches fixed in bulk (see commits starting
with commits 4274dc22 and 035ce1fe).

pg_bsd_indent still has a couple of similar inconsistencies, which I
(pgeoghegan) have left untouched for now.

Like all earlier commits that cleaned up function parameter names, this
commit was written with help from clang-tidy.
2023-04-13 10:15:20 -07:00
Thomas Munro d4e71df6d7 Add io_direct setting (developer-only).
Provide a way to ask the kernel to use O_DIRECT (or local equivalent)
where available for data and WAL files, to avoid or minimize kernel
caching.  This hurts performance currently and is not intended for end
users yet.  Later proposed work would introduce our own I/O clustering,
read-ahead, etc to replace the facilities the kernel disables with this
option.

The only user-visible change, if the developer-only GUC is not used, is
that this commit also removes the obscure logic that would activate
O_DIRECT for the WAL when wal_sync_method=open_[data]sync and
wal_level=minimal (which also requires max_wal_senders=0).  Those are
non-default and unlikely settings, and this behavior wasn't (correctly)
documented.  The same effect can be achieved with io_direct=wal.

Author: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGK1X532hYqJ_MzFWt0n1zt8trz980D79WbjwnT-yYLZpg%40mail.gmail.com
2023-04-08 16:35:07 +12:00
Thomas Munro faeedbcefd Introduce PG_IO_ALIGN_SIZE and align all I/O buffers.
In order to have the option to use O_DIRECT/FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING in a
later commit, we need the addresses of user space buffers to be well
aligned.  The exact requirements vary by OS and file system (typically
sectors and/or memory pages).  The address alignment size is set to
4096, which is enough for currently known systems: it matches modern
sectors and common memory page size.  There is no standard governing
O_DIRECT's requirements so we might eventually have to reconsider this
with more information from the field or future systems.

Aligning I/O buffers on memory pages is also known to improve regular
buffered I/O performance.

Three classes of I/O buffers for regular data pages are adjusted:
(1) Heap buffers are now allocated with the new palloc_aligned() or
MemoryContextAllocAligned() functions introduced by commit 439f6175.
(2) Stack buffers now use a new struct PGIOAlignedBlock to respect
PG_IO_ALIGN_SIZE, if possible with this compiler.  (3) The buffer
pool is also aligned in shared memory.

WAL buffers were already aligned on XLOG_BLCKSZ.  It's possible for
XLOG_BLCKSZ to be configured smaller than PG_IO_ALIGNED_SIZE and thus
for O_DIRECT WAL writes to fail to be well aligned, but that's a
pre-existing condition and will be addressed by a later commit.

BufFiles are not yet addressed (there's no current plan to use O_DIRECT
for those, but they could potentially get some incidental speedup even
in plain buffered I/O operations through better alignment).

If we can't align stack objects suitably using the compiler extensions
we know about, we disable the use of O_DIRECT by setting PG_O_DIRECT to
0.  This avoids the need to consider systems that have O_DIRECT but
can't align stack objects the way we want; such systems could in theory
be supported with more work but we don't currently know of any such
machines, so it's easier to pretend there is no O_DIRECT support
instead.  That's an existing and tested class of system.

Add assertions that all buffers passed into smgrread(), smgrwrite() and
smgrextend() are correctly aligned, unless PG_O_DIRECT is 0 (= stack
alignment tricks may be unavailable) or the block size has been set too
small to allow arrays of buffers to be all aligned.

Author: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGK1X532hYqJ_MzFWt0n1zt8trz980D79WbjwnT-yYLZpg@mail.gmail.com
2023-04-08 16:34:50 +12:00
Andres Freund ac8d53dae5 Track IO times in pg_stat_io
a9c70b46db and 8aaa04b32S added counting of IO operations to a new view,
pg_stat_io. Now, add IO timing for reads, writes, extends, and fsyncs to
pg_stat_io as well.

This combines the tracking for pgBufferUsage with the tracking for pg_stat_io
into a new function pgstat_count_io_op_time(). This should make it a bit
easier to avoid the somewhat costly instr_time conversion done for
pgBufferUsage.

Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_ay5iKmnbXZ3DsauViF3eMxu4m1oNnJXqV_HyqYeg55Ww%40mail.gmail.com
2023-04-07 17:04:56 -07:00
Andres Freund 704261ecc6 Improve IO accounting for temp relation writes
Both pgstat_database and pgBufferUsage count IO timing for reads of temporary
relation blocks into local buffers. However, both failed to count write IO
timing for flushes of dirty local buffers. Fix.

Additionally, FlushRelationBuffers() seems to have omitted counting write
IO (both count and timing) stats for both pgstat_database and
pgBufferUsage. Fix.

Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230321023451.7rzy4kjj2iktrg2r%40awork3.anarazel.de
2023-04-07 13:24:26 -07:00
Andres Freund 21d7c05a5c Fix copy-paste bug in 12f3867f55 triggering an assert after a write error
The same condition accidentally was copied to both branches. Manual testing
confirms that otherwise the error recovery path works fine.

Found while reviewing the logical-decoding-on-standby patch.
2023-04-07 01:02:46 -07:00
David Rowley 1cbbee0338 Add VACUUM/ANALYZE BUFFER_USAGE_LIMIT option
Add new options to the VACUUM and ANALYZE commands called
BUFFER_USAGE_LIMIT to allow users more control over how large to make the
buffer access strategy that is used to limit the usage of buffers in
shared buffers.  Larger rings can allow VACUUM to run more quickly but
have the drawback of VACUUM possibly evicting more buffers from shared
buffers that might be useful for other queries running on the database.

Here we also add a new GUC named vacuum_buffer_usage_limit which controls
how large to make the access strategy when it's not specified in the
VACUUM/ANALYZE command.  This defaults to 256KB, which is the same size as
the access strategy was prior to this change.  This setting also
controls how large to make the buffer access strategy for autovacuum.

Per idea by Andres Freund.

Author: Melanie Plageman
Reviewed-by: David Rowley
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Bharath Rupireddy
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230111182720.ejifsclfwymw2reb@awork3.anarazel.de
2023-04-07 11:40:31 +12:00
Andres Freund 31966b151e bufmgr: Introduce infrastructure for faster relation extension
The primary bottlenecks for relation extension are:

1) The extension lock is held while acquiring a victim buffer for the new
   page. Acquiring a victim buffer can require writing out the old page
   contents including possibly needing to flush WAL.

2) When extending via ReadBuffer() et al, we write a zero page during the
   extension, and then later write out the actual page contents. This can
   nearly double the write rate.

3) The existing bulk relation extension infrastructure in hio.c just amortized
   the cost of acquiring the relation extension lock, but none of the other
   costs.

Unfortunately 1) cannot currently be addressed in a central manner as the
callers to ReadBuffer() need to acquire the extension lock. To address that,
this this commit moves the responsibility for acquiring the extension lock
into bufmgr.c functions. That allows to acquire the relation extension lock
for just the required time. This will also allow us to improve relation
extension further, without changing callers.

The reason we write all-zeroes pages during relation extension is that we hope
to get ENOSPC errors earlier that way (largely works, except for CoW
filesystems). It is easier to handle out-of-space errors gracefully if the
page doesn't yet contain actual tuples. This commit addresses 2), by using the
recently introduced smgrzeroextend(), which extends the relation, without
dirtying the kernel page cache for all the extended pages.

To address 3), this commit introduces a function to extend a relation by
multiple blocks at a time.

There are three new exposed functions: ExtendBufferedRel() for extending the
relation by a single block, ExtendBufferedRelBy() to extend a relation by
multiple blocks at once, and ExtendBufferedRelTo() for extending a relation up
to a certain size.

To avoid duplicating code between ReadBuffer(P_NEW) and the new functions,
ReadBuffer(P_NEW) now implements relation extension with
ExtendBufferedRel(), using a flag to tell ExtendBufferedRel() that the
relation lock is already held.

Note that this commit does not yet lead to a meaningful performance or
scalability improvement - for that uses of ReadBuffer(P_NEW) will need to be
converted to ExtendBuffered*(), which will be done in subsequent commits.

Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Reviewed-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221029025420.eplyow6k7tgu6he3@awork3.anarazel.de
2023-04-05 16:21:09 -07:00
Andres Freund 12f3867f55 bufmgr: Support multiple in-progress IOs by using resowner
A future patch will add support for extending relations by multiple blocks at
once. To be concurrency safe, the buffers for those blocks need to be marked
as BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS. Until now we only had infrastructure for recovering from
an IO error for a single buffer. This commit extends that infrastructure to
multiple buffers by using the resource owner infrastructure.

This commit increases the size of the ResourceOwnerData struct, which appears
to have a just about measurable overhead in very extreme workloads. Medium
term we are planning to substantially shrink the size of
ResourceOwnerData. Short term the increase is small enough to not worry about
it for now.

Reviewed-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221029025420.eplyow6k7tgu6he3@awork3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221029200025.w7bvlgvamjfo6z44@awork3.anarazel.de
2023-04-05 14:17:55 -07:00
Andres Freund dad50f677c bufmgr: Acquire and clean victim buffer separately
Previously we held buffer locks for two buffer mapping partitions at the same
time to change the identity of buffers.  Particularly for extending relations
needing to hold the extension lock while acquiring a victim buffer is
painful.But it also creates a bottleneck for workloads that just involve
reads.

Now we instead first acquire a victim buffer and write it out, if
necessary. Then we remove that buffer from the old partition with just the old
partition's partition lock held and insert it into the new partition with just
that partition's lock held.

By separating out the victim buffer acquisition, future commits will be able
to change relation extensions to scale better.

On my workstation, a micro-benchmark exercising buffered reads strenuously and
under a lot of concurrency, sees a >2x improvement.

Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Reviewed-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221029025420.eplyow6k7tgu6he3@awork3.anarazel.de
2023-04-05 13:47:46 -07:00
Andres Freund 794f259447 bufmgr: Add Pin/UnpinLocalBuffer()
So far these were open-coded in quite a few places, without a good reason.

Reviewed-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221029025420.eplyow6k7tgu6he3@awork3.anarazel.de
2023-04-05 10:42:17 -07:00
Andres Freund 819b69a81d bufmgr: Add some more error checking [infrastructure] around pinning
This adds a few more assertions against a buffer being local in places we
don't expect, and extracts the check for a buffer being pinned exactly once
from LockBufferForCleanup() into its own function. Later commits will use this
function.

Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Reviewed-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/419312fd-9255-078c-c3e3-f0525f911d7f@iki.fi
2023-04-05 10:42:17 -07:00
Andres Freund 8a2b1b1477 bufmgr: Remove buffer-write-dirty tracepoints
The trace point was using the relfileno / fork / block for the to-be-read-in
buffer. Some upcoming work would make that more expensive to provide. We still
have buffer-flush-start/done, which can serve most tracing needs that
buffer-write-dirty could serve.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f5164e7a-eef6-8972-75a3-8ac622ed0c6e@iki.fi
2023-04-03 18:02:41 -07:00
David Rowley 8d928e3a9f Rename BufferAccessStrategyData.ring_size to nbuffers
The new name better reflects what the field is - the size of the buffers[]
array.  ring_size sounded more like it is in units of bytes.

An upcoming commit allows a BufferAccessStrategy of custom sizes, so it
seems relevant to improve this beforehand.

Author: Melanie Plageman
Reviewed-by: David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_YefVbhg4rAxU2frYFdTap61UftH-kUNQZBvAs%2BYK81Zg%40mail.gmail.com
2023-04-03 23:31:16 +12:00
Andres Freund 8aaa04b32d Track shared buffer hits in pg_stat_io
Among other things, this should make it easier to calculate a useful cache hit
ratio by excluding buffer reads via buffer access strategies. As buffer access
strategies reuse buffers (and thus evict the prior buffer contents), it is
normal to see reads on repeated scans of the same data.

Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_beMa9Hzih40%3DXPYqhDVz6tsgUGTrhZXRo%3Dunp%2Bszb%3DUA%40mail.gmail.com
2023-03-30 19:24:21 -07:00
Andres Freund 558cf80387 bufmgr: Fix undefined behaviour with, unrealistically, large temp_buffers
Quoting Melanie:
> Since if buffer is INT_MAX, then the -(buffer + 1) version invokes
> undefined behavior while the -buffer - 1 version doesn't.

All other places were already using the correct version. I (Andres), copied
the code into more places in a patch. Melanie caught it in review, but to
prevent more people from copying the bad code, fix it. Even if it is a
theoretical issue.

We really ought to wrap these accesses in a helper function...

As this is a theoretical issue, don't backpatch.

Reported-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_aW2SX_LWtwHgfnqYpBrunMLfE9PD6-ioPpkh92XH0qpg@mail.gmail.com
2023-03-30 10:26:10 -07:00
Tom Lane 58c9600a9f Remove empty function BufmgrCommit().
This function has been a no-op for over a decade.  Even if bufmgr
regains a need to be called during commit, it seems unlikely that
the most appropriate call points would be precisely here, so it's not
doing us much good as a placeholder either.  Now, removing it probably
doesn't save any noticeable number of cycles --- but the main call is
inside the commit critical section, and the less work done there the
better.

Matthias van de Meent

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEze2Wi1=tLKbxZnXzcD+8fYKyKqBtivVakLQC_mYBsP4Y8qVA@mail.gmail.com
2023-03-29 09:13:57 -04:00
Andres Freund 5df319f3d5 Fix memory leak and inefficiency in CREATE DATABASE ... STRATEGY WAL_LOG
RelationCopyStorageUsingBuffer() did not free the strategies used to access
the source / target relation. They memory was released at the end of the
transaction, but when using a template database with a lot of relations, the
temporary leak can become big prohibitively big.

RelationCopyStorageUsingBuffer() acquired the buffer for the target relation
with RBM_NORMAL, therefore requiring a read of a block guaranteed to be
zero. Use RBM_ZERO_AND_LOCK instead.

Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230321070113.o2vqqxogjykwgfrr@awork3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 15-, where STRATEGY WAL_LOG was introduced
2023-03-22 09:20:34 -07:00
Peter Eisentraut b9f0e54bc9 Update types in smgr API
Change data buffer to void *, from char *, and add const where
appropriate.  This makes it match the File API (see also
2d4f1ba6cf) and stdio.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/11dda853-bb5b-59ba-a746-e168b1ce4bdb%40enterprisedb.com
2023-02-27 07:47:46 +01:00
David Rowley 2cb82e2acf Speedup and increase usability of set proc title functions
The setting of the process title could be seen on profiles of very
fast-to-execute queries.  In many locations where we call
set_ps_display() we pass along a string constant, the length of which is
known during compilation.  Here we effectively rename set_ps_display() to
set_ps_display_with_len() and then add a static inline function named
set_ps_display() which calls strlen() on the given string.  This allows
the compiler to optimize away the strlen() call when dealing with
call sites passing a string constant.  We can then also use memcpy()
instead of strlcpy() to copy the string into the destination buffer.
That's significantly faster than strlcpy's byte-at-a-time way of
copying.

Here we also take measures to improve some code which was adjusting the
process title to add a " waiting" suffix to it.  Call sites which require
this can now just call set_ps_display_suffix() to add or adjust the suffix
and call set_ps_display_remove_suffix() to remove it again.

Reviewed-by: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvocBvvk-0gWNA2Gohe+sv9fMcv+fK_G+siBKJrgDG4O7g@mail.gmail.com
2023-02-20 16:18:27 +13:00
Andres Freund f30d62c2fc pgstat: Track more detailed relation IO statistics
Commit 28e626bde0 introduced the infrastructure for tracking more detailed IO
statistics. This commit adds the actual collection of the new IO statistics
for relations and temporary relations. See aforementioned commit for goals and
high-level design.

The changes in this commit are fairly straight-forward. The bulk of the change
is to passing sufficient information to the callsites of pgstat_count_io_op().

A somewhat unsightly detail is that it currently is hard to find a better
place to count fsyncs than in md.c, whereas the other pgstat_count_io_op()
calls are in bufmgr.c/localbuf.c. As the number of fsyncs is tied to md.c
implementation details, it's not obvious there is a better answer.

Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200124195226.lth52iydq2n2uilq@alap3.anarazel.de
2023-02-09 22:22:26 -08:00
Peter Eisentraut 54a177a948 Remove useless casts to (void *) in hash_search() calls
Some of these appear to be leftovers from when hash_search() took a
char * argument (changed in 5999e78fc4).

Since after this there is some more horizontal space available, do
some light reformatting where suitable.

Reviewed-by: Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/fd9adf5d-b1aa-e82f-e4c7-263c30145807%40enterprisedb.com
2023-02-06 09:41:01 +01:00
Andres Freund 25b2aba0c3 Zero initialize uses of instr_time about to trigger compiler warnings
These are all not necessary from a correctness POV. However, in the near
future instr_time will be simplified to an int64, at which point gcc would
otherwise start to warn about the changed places.

Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230116023639.rn36vf6ajqmfciua@awork3.anarazel.de
2023-01-20 21:16:47 -08:00
Andres Freund 250c8ee07e Manual cleanup and pgindent of pgstat and bufmgr related code
This is in preparation for commiting a larger patch series in the area.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_bHwGEbzNxxy+MQDkrsgog6aO6iUvajJ4d6PD98gFU7+w@mail.gmail.com
2023-01-13 15:23:17 -08:00
Bruce Momjian c8e1ba736b Update copyright for 2023
Backpatch-through: 11
2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
Andrew Dunstan 8284cf5f74 Add copyright notices to meson files
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/222b43a5-2fb3-2c1b-9cd0-375d376c8246@dunslane.net
2022-12-20 07:54:39 -05:00
Michael Paquier d9d873bac6 Clean up some inconsistencies with GUC declarations
This is similar to 7d25958, and this commit takes care of all the
remaining inconsistencies between the initial value used in the C
variable associated to a GUC and its default value stored in the GUC
tables (as of pg_settings.boot_val).

Some of the initial values of the GUCs updated rely on a compile-time
default.  These are refactored so as the GUC table and its C declaration
use the same values.  This makes everything consistent with other
places, backend_flush_after, bgwriter_flush_after, port,
checkpoint_flush_after doing so already, for example.

Extracted from a larger patch by Peter Smith.  The spots updated in the
modules are from me.

Author: Peter Smith, Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart, Tom Lane, Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut+PtHE0XSfjjRQ6D4v7+dqzCw=d+1a64ujra4EX8aoc_Z+w@mail.gmail.com
2022-10-31 12:44:48 +09:00
Michael Paquier 65b158ae4e Remove useless argument from UnpinBuffer()
The last caller of UnpinBuffer() that did not want to adjust
CurrentResourceOwner was removed in 2d115e4, and nothing has been
introduced in bufmgr.c to do the same thing since.  This simplifies 10
code paths.

Author: Aleksander Alekseev
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart, Zhang Mingli, Bharath Rupireddy
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJ7c6TOmmFpb6ohurLhTC7hKNJWGzdwf8s4EAtAZxD48g-e6Jw@mail.gmail.com
2022-09-30 15:57:47 +09:00
Andres Freund e6927270cd meson: Add initial version of meson based build system
Autoconf is showing its age, fewer and fewer contributors know how to wrangle
it. Recursive make has a lot of hard to resolve dependency issues and slow
incremental rebuilds. Our home-grown MSVC build system is hard to maintain for
developers not using Windows and runs tests serially. While these and other
issues could individually be addressed with incremental improvements, together
they seem best addressed by moving to a more modern build system.

After evaluating different build system choices, we chose to use meson, to a
good degree based on the adoption by other open source projects.

We decided that it's more realistic to commit a relatively early version of
the new build system and mature it in tree.

This commit adds an initial version of a meson based build system. It supports
building postgres on at least AIX, FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
Solaris and Windows (however only gcc is supported on aix, solaris). For
Windows/MSVC postgres can now be built with ninja (faster, particularly for
incremental builds) and msbuild (supporting the visual studio GUI, but
building slower).

Several aspects (e.g. Windows rc file generation, PGXS compatibility, LLVM
bitcode generation, documentation adjustments) are done in subsequent commits
requiring further review. Other aspects (e.g. not installing test-only
extensions) are not yet addressed.

When building on Windows with msbuild, builds are slower when using a visual
studio version older than 2019, because those versions do not support
MultiToolTask, required by meson for intra-target parallelism.

The plan is to remove the MSVC specific build system in src/tools/msvc soon
after reaching feature parity. However, we're not planning to remove the
autoconf/make build system in the near future. Likely we're going to keep at
least the parts required for PGXS to keep working around until all supported
versions build with meson.

Some initial help for postgres developers is at
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Meson

With contributions from Thomas Munro, John Naylor, Stone Tickle and others.

Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Reviewed-By: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211012083721.hvixq4pnh2pixr3j@alap3.anarazel.de
2022-09-21 22:37:17 -07:00
Peter Geoghegan bfcf1b3480 Harmonize parameter names in storage and AM code.
Make sure that function declarations use names that exactly match the
corresponding names from function definitions in storage, catalog,
access method, executor, and logical replication code, as well as in
miscellaneous utility/library code.

Like other recent commits that cleaned up function parameter names, this
commit was written with help from clang-tidy.  Later commits will do the
same for other parts of the codebase.

Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WznJt9CMM9KJTMjJh_zbL5hD9oX44qdJ4aqZtjFi-zA3Tg@mail.gmail.com
2022-09-19 19:18:36 -07:00
Tom Lane 0a20ff54f5 Split up guc.c for better build speed and ease of maintenance.
guc.c has grown to be one of our largest .c files, making it
a bottleneck for compilation.  It's also acquired a bunch of
knowledge that'd be better kept elsewhere, because of our not
very good habit of putting variable-specific check hooks here.
Hence, split it up along these lines:

* guc.c itself retains just the core GUC housekeeping mechanisms.
* New file guc_funcs.c contains the SET/SHOW interfaces and some
  SQL-accessible functions for GUC manipulation.
* New file guc_tables.c contains the data arrays that define the
  built-in GUC variables, along with some already-exported constant
  tables.
* GUC check/assign/show hook functions are moved to the variable's
  home module, whenever that's clearly identifiable.  A few hard-
  to-classify hooks ended up in commands/variable.c, which was
  already a home for miscellaneous GUC hook functions.

To avoid cluttering a lot more header files with #include "guc.h",
I also invented a new header file utils/guc_hooks.h and put all
the GUC hook functions' declarations there, regardless of their
originating module.  That allowed removal of #include "guc.h"
from some existing headers.  The fallout from that (hopefully
all caught here) demonstrates clearly why such inclusions are
best minimized: there are a lot of files that, for example,
were getting array.h at two or more levels of remove, despite
not having any connection at all to GUCs in themselves.

There is some very minor code beautification here, such as
renaming a couple of inconsistently-named hook functions
and improving some comments.  But mostly this just moves
code from point A to point B and deals with the ensuing
needs for #include adjustments and exporting a few functions
that previously weren't exported.

Patch by me, per a suggestion from Andres Freund; thanks also
to Michael Paquier for the idea to invent guc_funcs.c.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/587607.1662836699@sss.pgh.pa.us
2022-09-13 11:11:45 -04:00
Robert Haas 82ac34db20 Include RelFileLocator fields individually in BufferTag.
This is preparatory work for a project to increase the number of bits
in a RelFileNumber from 32 to 56.

Along the way, introduce static inline accessor functions for a couple
of BufferTag fields.

Dilip Kumar, reviewed by me. The overall patch series has also had
review at various times from Andres Freund, Ashutosh Sharma, Hannu
Krosing, Vignesh C, Álvaro Herrera, and Tom Lane.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAFiTN-trubju5YbWAq-BSpZ90-Z6xCVBQE8BVqXqANOZAF1Znw@mail.gmail.com
2022-08-24 15:50:48 -04:00
David Rowley 421892a192 Further reduce warnings with -Wshadow=compatible-local
In a similar effort to f01592f91, here we're targetting fixing the
warnings that -Wshadow=compatible-local produces that we can fix by moving
a variable to an inner scope to stop that variable from being shadowed by
another variable declared somewhere later in the function.

All of the warnings being fixed here are changing the scope of variables
which are being used as an iterator for a "for" loop.  In each instance,
the fix happens to be changing the for loop to use the C99 type
initialization.  Much of this code likely pre-dates our use of C99.

Reducing the scope of the outer scoped variable seems like the safest way
to fix these.  Renaming seems more likely to risk patches using the wrong
variable.  Reducing the scope is more likely to result in a compilation
failure after applying some future patch rather than introducing bugs with
it.

By my count, this takes the warning count from 129 down to 114.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvrwLGBP%2BYw9vriayyf%3DXR4uPWP5jr6cQhP9au_kaDUhbA%40mail.gmail.com
2022-08-24 12:27:12 +12:00