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Re: WIP: WAL prefetch (another approach)

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Cc: Ashutosh Sharma <ashu.coek88@gmail.com>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>, Jakub Wartak <Jakub.Wartak@tomtom.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-03-08T21:17:16Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Hi,

On 2022-03-08 18:15:43 +1300, Thomas Munro wrote:
> I'm now starting to think about committing this soon.

+1

Are you thinking of committing both patches at once, or with a bit of
distance?

I think something in the regression tests ought to enable
recovery_prefetch. 027_stream_regress or 001_stream_rep seem like the obvious
candidates?


- Andres

Commits

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  1. Fix recovery_prefetch docs.

  2. Prefetch data referenced by the WAL, take II.

  3. Add circular WAL decoding buffer, take II.

  4. Fix generation of ./INSTALL for the distribution tarball

  5. Revert recovery prefetching feature.

  6. Sync guc.c and postgresql.conf.sample with the SGML docs.

  7. Add information of total data processed to replication slot stats.

  8. Doc: Review for "Optionally prefetch referenced data in recovery."

  9. Add circular WAL decoding buffer.

  10. Optionally prefetch referenced data in recovery.

  11. Remove read_page callback from XLogReader.

  12. Provide ReadRecentBuffer() to re-pin buffers by ID.

  13. Provide recovery_init_sync_method=syncfs.

  14. Mark factorial operator, and postfix operators in general, as deprecated.

  15. Rationalize GetWalRcv{Write,Flush}RecPtr().

  16. Support PrefetchBuffer() in recovery.

  17. Prevent hard failures of standbys caused by recycled WAL segments