postgresql/src/test
Amit Kapila b0eaa4c51b Avoid creation of the free space map for small heap relations, take 2.
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
2019-02-04 07:49:15 +05:30
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authentication Update copyright for 2019 2019-01-02 12:44:25 -05:00
examples Update copyright for 2019 2019-01-02 12:44:25 -05:00
isolation In the planner, replace an empty FROM clause with a dummy RTE. 2019-01-28 17:54:23 -05:00
kerberos Update copyright for 2019 2019-01-02 12:44:25 -05:00
ldap Update copyright for 2019 2019-01-02 12:44:25 -05:00
locale Make sort-test.py Python 3 compatible 2019-01-04 11:23:24 +01:00
mb Fix MB regression tests for WAL-logging of hash indexes. 2017-03-15 07:25:36 -04:00
modules Refactor planner's header files. 2019-01-29 15:48:51 -05:00
perl Update copyright for 2019 2019-01-02 12:44:25 -05:00
recovery Allow for yet another crash symptom in 013_crash_restart.pl. 2019-01-26 22:12:48 -05:00
regress Avoid creation of the free space map for small heap relations, take 2. 2019-02-04 07:49:15 +05:30
ssl Add more columns to pg_stat_ssl 2019-02-01 00:33:47 +01:00
subscription Fix a crash in logical replication 2019-01-30 08:49:54 +01:00
thread Ensure link commands list *.o files before LDFLAGS. 2019-01-02 13:57:54 -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

README

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