Allow on-access pruning to set pages all-visible
Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Author:
Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Date: 2026-03-30T19:47:07Z
Releases:
19 (unreleased)
Allow on-access pruning to set pages all-visible Many queries do not modify the underlying relation. For such queries, if on-access pruning occurs during the scan, we can check whether the page has become all-visible and update the visibility map accordingly. Previously, only vacuum and COPY FREEZE marked pages as all-visible or all-frozen. This commit implements on-access VM setting for sequential scans, tid range scans, sample scans, bitmap heap scans, and the underlying heap relation in index scans. Setting the visibility map on-access can avoid write amplification caused by vacuum later needing to set the page all-visible, which could trigger a write and potentially an FPI. It also allows more frequent index-only scans, since they require pages to be marked all-visible in the VM. Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Reviewed-by: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_ZMw6Npd_qm2KM%2BFwQ3cMOMx1Dh3VMhp8-V7SOLxdK9-g%40mail.gmail.com
Files
| Path | Change | +/− |
|---|---|---|
| src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c | modified | +2 −1 |
| src/backend/access/heap/heapam_handler.c | modified | +4 −2 |
| src/backend/access/heap/pruneheap.c | modified | +50 −16 |
| src/backend/access/heap/vacuumlazy.c | modified | +1 −1 |
| src/include/access/heapam.h | modified | +2 −1 |
Discussion
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