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Re: refactoring relation extension and BufferAlloc(), faster COPY

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Yura Sokolov <y.sokolov@postgrespro.ru>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Date: 2023-04-14T18:38:44Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Hi,

On 2023-04-12 08:00:00 +0300, Alexander Lakhin wrote:
> 12.04.2023 02:21, Andres Freund wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On 2023-04-11 22:00:00 +0300, Alexander Lakhin wrote:
> > > A few days later I've found a new defect introduced with 31966b151.
> > That's the same issue that Tom also just reported, at
> > https://postgr.es/m/392271.1681238924%40sss.pgh.pa.us
> > 
> > Attached is my WIP fix, including a test.
> 
> Thanks for the fix. I can confirm that the issue is gone.
> ReadBuffer_common() contains an Assert(), that is similar to the fixed one,
> but it looks unreachable for the WAL replay case after 26158b852.

Good catch. I implemented it there too. As now all of the modes are supported,
I removed the assertion.

I also extended the test slightly to also test the case of dropped relations.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

Commits

  1. lwlock: Fix quadratic behavior with very long wait lists

  2. Support RBM_ZERO_AND_CLEANUP_LOCK in ExtendBufferedRelTo(), add tests

  3. Use ExtendBufferedRelTo() in XLogReadBufferExtended()

  4. hio: Use ExtendBufferedRelBy() to extend tables more efficiently

  5. heapam: Pass number of required pages to RelationGetBufferForTuple()

  6. Convert many uses of ReadBuffer[Extended](P_NEW) to ExtendBufferedRel()

  7. Use ExtendBufferedRelTo() in {vm,fsm}_extend()

  8. bufmgr: Introduce infrastructure for faster relation extension

  9. bufmgr: Support multiple in-progress IOs by using resowner

  10. bufmgr: Acquire and clean victim buffer separately

  11. bufmgr: Add Pin/UnpinLocalBuffer()

  12. bufmgr: Add some more error checking [infrastructure] around pinning

  13. Add smgrzeroextend(), FileZero(), FileFallocate()

  14. Don't initialize page in {vm,fsm}_extend(), not needed

  15. bufmgr: Remove buffer-write-dirty tracepoints

  16. hio: Release extension lock before initializing page / pinning VM

  17. bufmgr: Fix undefined behaviour with, unrealistically, large temp_buffers

  18. Fix memory leak and inefficiency in CREATE DATABASE ... STRATEGY WAL_LOG

  19. pgstat: Track more detailed relation IO statistics

  20. Use unnamed POSIX semaphores on Cygwin.

  21. Include RelFileLocator fields individually in BufferTag.