Re: brininsert optimization opportunity

Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>

From: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Cc: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>, Soumyadeep Chakraborty <soumyadeep2007@gmail.com>, Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Ashwin Agrawal <ashwinstar@gmail.com>
Date: 2024-04-18T09:35:43Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 4/18/24 09:07, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 01:20:39PM +0100, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> I think it's not an issue, or rather that we should not try to guess.
>> Instead make it a simple rule: if aminsert is called, then
>> aminsertcleanup must be called afterwards, period.
>>
>> I agree it would be nice to have a way to verify, but it doesn't seem
>> 100% essential.  After all, it's not very common to add new calls to
>> aminsert.
> 
> This thread is listed as an open item.  What's the follow-up plan?
> The last email of this thread is dated as of the 29th of February,
> which was 6 weeks ago.

Apologies, I got distracted by the other patches. The bug is still
there, I believe the patch shared by Alvaro in [1] is the right way to
deal with it. I'll take care of that today/tomorrow.


[1]
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/202401091043.e3nrqiad6gb7@alvherre.pgsql

regards

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Commits

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  1. Add missing index_insert_cleanup calls

  2. Fix a couple typos in BRIN code

  3. Check if ii_AmCache is NULL in aminsertcleanup

  4. Use fipshash in brin_multi test

  5. Reuse BrinDesc and BrinRevmap in brininsert

  6. Consider fillfactor when estimating relation size

  7. Postpone some stuff out of ExecInitModifyTable.