postgresql/contrib/pg_prewarm/pg_prewarm.c

/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 *
 * pg_prewarm.c
 *		  prewarming utilities
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2010-2014, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
 *
 * IDENTIFICATION
 *		  contrib/pg_prewarm/pg_prewarm.c
 *
 *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 */
#include "postgres.h"

#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <unistd.h>

#include "access/heapam.h"
#include "catalog/catalog.h"
#include "fmgr.h"
#include "miscadmin.h"
#include "storage/bufmgr.h"
#include "storage/smgr.h"
#include "utils/acl.h"
#include "utils/builtins.h"
#include "utils/lsyscache.h"
#include "utils/rel.h"

PG_MODULE_MAGIC;

PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(pg_prewarm);

typedef enum
{
	PREWARM_PREFETCH,
	PREWARM_READ,
	PREWARM_BUFFER
} PrewarmType;

static char blockbuffer[BLCKSZ];

/*
 * pg_prewarm(regclass, mode text, fork text,
 *			  first_block int8, last_block int8)
 *
 * The first argument is the relation to be prewarmed; the second controls
 * how prewarming is done; legal options are 'prefetch', 'read', and 'buffer'.
 * The third is the name of the relation fork to be prewarmed.	The fourth
 * and fifth arguments specify the first and last block to be prewarmed.
 * If the fourth argument is NULL, it will be taken as 0; if the fifth argument
 * is NULL, it will be taken as the number of blocks in the relation.  The
 * return value is the number of blocks successfully prewarmed.
 */
Datum
pg_prewarm(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
{
	Oid			relOid;
	text	   *forkName;
	text	   *type;
	int64		first_block;
	int64		last_block;
	int64		nblocks;
	int64		blocks_done = 0;
	int64		block;
	Relation	rel;
	ForkNumber	forkNumber;
	char	   *forkString;
	char	   *ttype;
	PrewarmType ptype;
	AclResult	aclresult;

	/* Basic sanity checking. */
	if (PG_ARGISNULL(0))
		ereport(ERROR,
				(errcode(ERRCODE_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE),
				 errmsg("relation cannot be null")));
	relOid = PG_GETARG_OID(0);
	if (PG_ARGISNULL(1))
		ereport(ERROR,
				(errcode(ERRCODE_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE),
				 (errmsg("prewarm type cannot be null"))));
	type = PG_GETARG_TEXT_P(1);
	ttype = text_to_cstring(type);
	if (strcmp(ttype, "prefetch") == 0)
		ptype = PREWARM_PREFETCH;
	else if (strcmp(ttype, "read") == 0)
		ptype = PREWARM_READ;
	else if (strcmp(ttype, "buffer") == 0)
		ptype = PREWARM_BUFFER;
	else
	{
		ereport(ERROR,
				(errcode(ERRCODE_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE),
				 errmsg("invalid prewarm type"),
				 errhint("Valid prewarm types are \"prefetch\", \"read\", and \"buffer\".")));
		PG_RETURN_INT64(0);		/* Placate compiler. */
	}
	if (PG_ARGISNULL(2))
		ereport(ERROR,
				(errcode(ERRCODE_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE),
				 (errmsg("relation fork cannot be null"))));
	forkName = PG_GETARG_TEXT_P(2);
	forkString = text_to_cstring(forkName);
	forkNumber = forkname_to_number(forkString);

	/* Open relation and check privileges. */
	rel = relation_open(relOid, AccessShareLock);
	aclresult = pg_class_aclcheck(relOid, GetUserId(), ACL_SELECT);
	if (aclresult != ACLCHECK_OK)
		aclcheck_error(aclresult, ACL_KIND_CLASS, get_rel_name(relOid));

	/* Check that the fork exists. */
	RelationOpenSmgr(rel);
	if (!smgrexists(rel->rd_smgr, forkNumber))
		ereport(ERROR,
				(errcode(ERRCODE_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE),
				 errmsg("fork \"%s\" does not exist for this relation",
						forkString)));

	/* Validate block numbers, or handle nulls. */
	nblocks = RelationGetNumberOfBlocksInFork(rel, forkNumber);
	if (PG_ARGISNULL(3))
		first_block = 0;
	else
	{
		first_block = PG_GETARG_INT64(3);
		if (first_block < 0 || first_block >= nblocks)
			ereport(ERROR,
					(errcode(ERRCODE_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE),
					 errmsg("starting block number must be between 0 and " INT64_FORMAT,
							nblocks - 1)));
	}
	if (PG_ARGISNULL(4))
		last_block = nblocks - 1;
	else
	{
		last_block = PG_GETARG_INT64(4);
		if (last_block < 0 || last_block >= nblocks)
			ereport(ERROR,
					(errcode(ERRCODE_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE),
			errmsg("ending block number must be between 0 and " INT64_FORMAT,
				   nblocks - 1)));
	}

	/* Now we're ready to do the real work. */
	if (ptype == PREWARM_PREFETCH)
	{
#ifdef USE_PREFETCH

		/*
		 * In prefetch mode, we just hint the OS to read the blocks, but we
		 * don't know whether it really does it, and we don't wait for it to
		 * finish.
		 *
		 * It would probably be better to pass our prefetch requests in chunks
		 * of a megabyte or maybe even a whole segment at a time, but there's
		 * no practical way to do that at present without a gross modularity
		 * violation, so we just do this.
		 */
		for (block = first_block; block <= last_block; ++block)
		{
			PrefetchBuffer(rel, forkNumber, block);
			++blocks_done;
		}
#else
		ereport(ERROR,
				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
				 errmsg("prefetch is not supported by this build")));
#endif
	}
	else if (ptype == PREWARM_READ)
	{
		/*
		 * In read mode, we actually read the blocks, but not into shared
		 * buffers.  This is more portable than prefetch mode (it works
		 * everywhere) and is synchronous.
		 */
		for (block = first_block; block <= last_block; ++block)
		{
			smgrread(rel->rd_smgr, forkNumber, block, blockbuffer);
			++blocks_done;
		}
	}
	else if (ptype == PREWARM_BUFFER)
	{
		/*
		 * In buffer mode, we actually pull the data into shared_buffers.
		 */
		for (block = first_block; block <= last_block; ++block)
		{
			Buffer		buf;

			buf = ReadBufferExtended(rel, forkNumber, block, RBM_NORMAL, NULL);
			ReleaseBuffer(buf);
			++blocks_done;
		}
	}

	/* Close relation, release lock. */
	relation_close(rel, AccessShareLock);

	PG_RETURN_INT64(blocks_done);
}