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Re: Pluggable Storage - Andres's take

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Haribabu Kommi <kommi.haribabu@gmail.com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Alexander Korotkov <a.korotkov@postgrespro.ru>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-08-21T08:59:48Z
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Hi,

On 2018-08-21 16:55:47 +1000, Haribabu Kommi wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 7:48 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> > I'm currently in the process of rebasing zheap onto the pluggable
> > storage work. The goal, which seems to work surprisingly well, is to
> > find issues that the current pluggable storage patch doesn't yet deal
> > with.  I plan to push a tree including a lot of fixes and improvements
> > soon.
> >
> 
> Sorry for coming late to this thread.

No worries.


> That's good. Did you find any problems in porting zheap into pluggable
> storage? Does it needs any API changes or new API requirement?

A lot, yes. The big changes are:
- removal of HeapPageScanDesc
- introduction of explicit support functions for tablesample & bitmap scans
- introduction of callbacks for vacuum_rel, cluster

And quite a bit more along those lines.

> Does the new TupleTableSlot abstraction patches has fixed any of these
> issues in the recent thread [1]? so that I can look into the change of
> FDW API to return slot instead of tuple.

Yea, that'd be a good thing to start with.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

Commits

  1. Add default_table_access_method to postgresql.conf.sample.

  2. tableam: Avoid relying on relation size to determine validity of tids.

  3. tableam: Don't assume that every AM uses md.c style storage.

  4. Allow pg_class xid & multixid horizons to not be set.

  5. Fix slot type issue for fuzzy distance index scan over out-of-core table AM.

  6. tableam: comment and formatting fixes.

  7. table: docs: fix typos and grammar.

  8. tableam: basic documentation.

  9. Only allow heap in a number of contrib modules.

  10. tableam: Add table_finish_bulk_insert().

  11. tableam: sample scan.

  12. tableam: bitmap table scan.

  13. tableam: Move heap specific logic from estimate_rel_size below tableam.

  14. tableam: VACUUM and ANALYZE support.

  15. tableam: relation creation, VACUUM FULL/CLUSTER, SET TABLESPACE.

  16. tableam: Support for an index build's initial table scan(s).

  17. tableam: Add table_get_latest_tid, to wrap heap_get_latest_tid.

  18. tableam: Add helper for indexes to check if a corresponding table tuples exist.

  19. tableam: Add and use table_fetch_row_version().

  20. tableam: Use in CREATE TABLE AS and CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW.

  21. Ensure sufficient alignment for ParallelTableScanDescData in BTShared.

  22. Don't reuse slots between root and partition in ON CONFLICT ... UPDATE.

  23. Use a virtual rather than a heap slot in two places where that suffices.

  24. Store tuples for EvalPlanQual in slots, rather than as HeapTuples.

  25. Use slots in trigger infrastructure, except for the actual invocation.

  26. Store table oid and tuple's tid in tuple slots directly.

  27. Allow to use HeapTupleData embedded in [Buffer]HeapTupleTableSlot.

  28. Add ExecStorePinnedBufferHeapTuple.

  29. Add ArchiveOpts to pass options to ArchiveEntry

  30. Rename RelationData.rd_amroutine to rd_indam.

  31. Rephrase references to "time qualification".

  32. Move remaining code from tqual.[ch] to heapam.h / heapam_visibility.c.

  33. Move generic snapshot related code from tqual.h to snapmgr.h.

  34. Remove superfluous tqual.h includes.

  35. Don't duplicate parallel seqscan shmem sizing logic in nbtree.

  36. Move vacuumlazy.c into access/heap.

  37. Support parallel bitmap heap scans.