Re: BitmapHeapScan streaming read user and prelim refactoring

Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>

From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Date: 2024-02-16T17:35:59Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Attachments

In the attached v3, I've reordered the commits, updated some errant
comments, and improved the commit messages.

I've also made some updates to the TIDBitmap API that seem like a
clarity improvement to the API in general. These also reduce the diff
for GIN when separating the TBMIterateResult from the
TBM[Shared]Iterator. And these TIDBitmap API changes are now all in
their own commits (previously those were in the same commit as adding
the BitmapHeapScan streaming read user).

The three outstanding issues I see in the patch set are:
1) the lossy and exact page counters issue described in my previous
email
2) the TODO in the TIDBitmap API changes about being sure that setting
TBMIterateResult->blockno to InvalidBlockNumber is sufficient for
indicating an invalid TBMIterateResult (and an exhausted bitmap)
3) the streaming read API is not committed yet, so the last two patches
are not "done"

- Melanie

Commits

  1. Fix bitmapheapscan incorrect recheck of NULL tuples

  2. Increase default maintenance_io_concurrency to 16

  3. Separate TBM[Shared|Private]Iterator and TBMIterateResult

  4. Improve read_stream.c advice for dense streams.

  5. Increase default effective_io_concurrency to 16

  6. Delay extraction of TIDBitmap per page offsets

  7. Add lossy indicator to TBMIterateResult

  8. Move BitmapTableScan per-scan setup into a helper

  9. Add and use BitmapHeapScanDescData struct

  10. Fix bitmap table scan crash on iterator release

  11. Bitmap Table Scans use unified TBMIterator

  12. Add common interface for TBMIterators

  13. Make table_scan_bitmap_next_block() async-friendly

  14. Move EXPLAIN counter increment to heapam_scan_bitmap_next_block

  15. Refactor tidstore.c iterator buffering.

  16. BitmapHeapScan: Remove incorrect assert and reset field

  17. Change BitmapAdjustPrefetchIterator to accept BlockNumber

  18. BitmapHeapScan: Use correct recheck flag for skip_fetch

  19. BitmapHeapScan: Push skip_fetch optimization into table AM

  20. BitmapHeapScan: postpone setting can_skip_fetch

  21. BitmapHeapScan: begin scan after bitmap creation

  22. Fix EXPLAIN Bitmap heap scan to count pages with no visible tuples

  23. Remove redundant snapshot copying from parallel leader to workers

  24. Remove some obsolete smgrcloseall() calls.

  25. Remove the "snapshot too old" feature.

  26. Compute XID horizon for page level index vacuum on primary.