Re: Speed up Clog Access by increasing CLOG buffers

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
Cc: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Jesper Pedersen <jesper.pedersen@redhat.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-03-15T15:11:53Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
David Steele wrote:

> This patch no longer applies cleanly:
> 
> $ git apply ../other/group_update_clog_v6.patch

Normally "git apply -3" gives good results in these cases -- it applies
the 3-way merge algorithm just as if you had applied the patch to the
revision it was built on and later git-merged with the latest head.

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Commits

  1. Use group updates when setting transaction status in clog.

  2. Improve 64bit atomics support.

  3. Add ProcArrayGroupUpdate wait event.

  4. Make the different Unix-y semaphore implementations ABI-compatible.

  5. Fix broken ALTER INDEX documentation

  6. Code and docs review for commit 3187d6de0e5a9e805b27c48437897e8c39071d45.

  7. Partition the freelist for shared dynahash tables.

  8. Correct StartupSUBTRANS for page wraparound

  9. Make idle backends exit if the postmaster dies.

  10. contrib/sslinfo: add ssl_extension_info SRF

  11. Reduce ProcArrayLock contention by removing backends in batches.

  12. Fix `make installcheck` for serializable transactions.

  13. Lockless StrategyGetBuffer clock sweep hot path.

  14. Reduce sinval synchronization overhead.