/*------------------------------------------------------------------------- * * logtape.h * Management of "logical tapes" within temporary files. * * See logtape.c for explanations. * * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2023, PostgreSQL Global Development Group * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California * * src/include/utils/logtape.h * *------------------------------------------------------------------------- */ #ifndef LOGTAPE_H #define LOGTAPE_H #include "storage/sharedfileset.h" /* * LogicalTapeSet and LogicalTape are opaque types whose details are not * known outside logtape.c. */ typedef struct LogicalTapeSet LogicalTapeSet; typedef struct LogicalTape LogicalTape; /* * The approach tuplesort.c takes to parallel external sorts is that workers, * whose state is almost the same as independent serial sorts, are made to * produce a final materialized tape of sorted output in all cases. This is * frozen, just like any case requiring a final materialized tape. However, * there is one difference, which is that freezing will also export an * underlying shared fileset BufFile for sharing. Freezing produces TapeShare * metadata for the worker when this happens, which is passed along through * shared memory to leader. * * The leader process can then pass an array of TapeShare metadata (one per * worker participant) to LogicalTapeSetCreate(), alongside a handle to a * shared fileset, which is sufficient to construct a new logical tapeset that * consists of each of the tapes materialized by workers. * * Note that while logtape.c does create an empty leader tape at the end of the * tapeset in the leader case, it can never be written to due to a restriction * in the shared buffile infrastructure. */ typedef struct TapeShare { /* * Currently, all the leader process needs is the location of the * materialized tape's first block. */ long firstblocknumber; } TapeShare; /* * prototypes for functions in logtape.c */ extern LogicalTapeSet *LogicalTapeSetCreate(bool preallocate, SharedFileSet *fileset, int worker); extern void LogicalTapeClose(LogicalTape *lt); extern void LogicalTapeSetClose(LogicalTapeSet *lts); extern LogicalTape *LogicalTapeCreate(LogicalTapeSet *lts); extern LogicalTape *LogicalTapeImport(LogicalTapeSet *lts, int worker, TapeShare *shared); extern void LogicalTapeSetForgetFreeSpace(LogicalTapeSet *lts); extern size_t LogicalTapeRead(LogicalTape *lt, void *ptr, size_t size); extern void LogicalTapeWrite(LogicalTape *lt, const void *ptr, size_t size); extern void LogicalTapeRewindForRead(LogicalTape *lt, size_t buffer_size); extern void LogicalTapeFreeze(LogicalTape *lt, TapeShare *share); extern size_t LogicalTapeBackspace(LogicalTape *lt, size_t size); extern void LogicalTapeSeek(LogicalTape *lt, long blocknum, int offset); extern void LogicalTapeTell(LogicalTape *lt, long *blocknum, int *offset); extern long LogicalTapeSetBlocks(LogicalTapeSet *lts); #endif /* LOGTAPE_H */