postgresql/src/test
Peter Eisentraut 0d5f05cde0 Allow multi-inserts during COPY into a partitioned table
CopyFrom allows multi-inserts to be used for non-partitioned tables, but
this was disabled for partitioned tables.  The reason for this appeared
to be that the tuple may not belong to the same partition as the
previous tuple did.  Not allowing multi-inserts here greatly slowed down
imports into partitioned tables.  These could take twice as long as a
copy to an equivalent non-partitioned table.  It seems wise to do
something about this, so this change allows the multi-inserts by
flushing the so-far inserted tuples to the partition when the next tuple
does not belong to the same partition, or when the buffer fills.  This
improves performance when the next tuple in the stream commonly belongs
to the same partition as the previous tuple.

In cases where the target partition changes on every tuple, using
multi-inserts slightly slows the performance.  To get around this we
track the average size of the batches that have been inserted and
adaptively enable or disable multi-inserts based on the size of the
batch.  Some testing was done and the regression only seems to exist
when the average size of the insert batch is close to 1, so let's just
enable multi-inserts when the average size is at least 1.3.  More
performance testing might reveal a better number for, this, but since
the slowdown was only 1-2% it does not seem critical enough to spend too
much time calculating it.  In any case it may depend on other factors
rather than just the size of the batch.

Allowing multi-inserts for partitions required a bit of work around the
per-tuple memory contexts as we must flush the tuples when the next
tuple does not belong the same partition.  In which case there is no
good time to reset the per-tuple context, as we've already built the new
tuple by this time.  In order to work around this we maintain two
per-tuple contexts and just switch between them every time the partition
changes and reset the old one.  This does mean that the first of each
batch of tuples is not allocated in the same memory context as the
others, but that does not matter since we only reset the context once
the previous batch has been inserted.

Author: David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
2018-08-01 10:23:09 +02:00
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authentication Clarify the README files for the various separate TAP-based test suites. 2018-06-19 19:30:50 -04:00
examples Fix libpq example programs 2018-07-01 14:06:40 +02:00
isolation Allow using the updated tuple while moving it to a different partition. 2018-07-12 12:51:39 +05:30
kerberos Clarify the README files for the various separate TAP-based test suites. 2018-06-19 19:30:50 -04:00
ldap Improve requirements documentation for ldap test suite. 2018-06-21 12:37:21 -04:00
locale Add a temp-install prerequisite to "check"-like targets not having one. 2017-11-05 18:51:08 -08:00
mb Fix MB regression tests for WAL-logging of hash indexes. 2017-03-15 07:25:36 -04:00
modules Use a ResourceOwner to track buffer pins in all cases. 2018-07-18 12:15:16 -04:00
perl Make logical WAL sender report streaming state appropriately 2018-07-12 10:19:35 +09:00
recovery Remove race-prone hot_standby_feedback test cases in 001_stream_rep.pl. 2018-07-18 17:39:27 -04:00
regress Allow multi-inserts during COPY into a partitioned table 2018-08-01 10:23:09 +02:00
ssl Add ssl_library preset parameter 2018-07-30 13:46:27 +02:00
subscription Set ActiveSnapshot when logically replaying inserts 2018-07-30 16:30:07 -04:00
thread Update copyright for 2018 2018-01-02 23:30:12 -05:00
Makefile Revert "Allow on-line enabling and disabling of data checksums" 2018-04-09 19:03:42 +02:00
README Add TAP tests for password-based authentication methods. 2017-03-17 11:34:16 +02:00

PostgreSQL tests
================

This directory contains a variety of test infrastructure as well as some of the
tests in PostgreSQL. Not all tests are here -- in particular, there are more in
individual contrib/ modules and in src/bin.

Not all these tests get run by "make check". Check src/test/Makefile to see
which tests get run automatically.

authentication/
  Tests for authentication

examples/
  Demonstration programs for libpq that double as regression tests via
  "make check"

isolation/
  Tests for concurrent behavior at the SQL level

locale/
  Sanity checks for locale data, encodings, etc

mb/
  Tests for multibyte encoding (UTF-8) support

modules/
  Extensions used only or mainly for test purposes, generally not suitable
  for installing in production databases

perl/
  Infrastructure for Perl-based TAP tests

recovery/
  Test suite for recovery and replication

regress/
  PostgreSQL's main regression test suite, pg_regress

ssl/
  Tests to exercise and verify SSL certificate handling

subscription/
  Tests for logical replication

thread/
  A thread-safety-testing utility used by configure