Re: Pluggable Storage - Andres's take

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Haribabu Kommi <kommi.haribabu@gmail.com>
Cc: Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Asim R P <apraveen@pivotal.io>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Ashwin Agrawal <aagrawal@pivotal.io>, Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>, Alexander Korotkov <a.korotkov@postgrespro.ru>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Date: 2019-04-01T23:18:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi,

On 2019-03-16 23:21:31 +1100, Haribabu Kommi wrote:
> updated patches are attached.

Now that nearly all of the tableam patches are committed (with the
exception of the copy.c changes which are for bad reasons discussed at
[1]) I'm looking at the docs changes.

What made you rename indexam.sgml to am.sgml, instead of creating a
separate tableam.sgml?  Seems easier to just have a separate file?

I'm currently not planning to include the function-by-function API
reference you've in your patchset, as I think it's more reasonable to
centralize all of it in tableam.h. I think I've included most of the
information there - could you check whether you agree?

[1] https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f98Fa%2BQRTGKwqbtz0M%3DCy1EHYR8Q-W08cpA78tOy4euKQ%40mail.gmail.com

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.