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Tom Lane 007556bf08 Remove fixed limit on the number of concurrent AllocateFile() requests.
AllocateFile(), AllocateDir(), and some sister routines share a small array
for remembering requests, so that the files can be closed on transaction
failure.  Previously that array had a fixed size, MAX_ALLOCATED_DESCS (32).
While historically that had seemed sufficient, Steve Toutant pointed out
that this meant you couldn't scan more than 32 file_fdw foreign tables in
one query, because file_fdw depends on the COPY code which uses
AllocateFile().  There are probably other cases, or will be in the future,
where this nonconfigurable limit impedes users.

We can't completely remove any such limit, at least not without a lot of
work, since each such request requires a kernel file descriptor and most
platforms limit the number we can have.  (In principle we could
"virtualize" these descriptors, as fd.c already does for the main VFD pool,
but not without an additional layer of overhead and a lot of notational
impact on the calling code.)  But we can at least let the array size be
configurable.  Hence, change the code to allow up to max_safe_fds/2
allocated file requests.  On modern platforms this should allow several
hundred concurrent file_fdw scans, or more if one increases the value of
max_files_per_process.  To go much further than that, we'd need to do some
more work on the data structure, since the current code for closing
requests has potentially O(N^2) runtime; but it should still be all right
for request counts in this range.

Back-patch to 9.1 where contrib/file_fdw was introduced.
2013-06-09 13:46:54 -04:00
config Compiler optimizations for page checksum code. 2013-04-30 06:59:26 +01:00
contrib Fix off-by-one in pg_xlogdump -r option. 2013-06-04 18:51:43 +03:00
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