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Re: BitmapHeapScan streaming read user and prelim refactoring

Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>

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From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Date: 2024-03-23T00:26:07Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 08:22:11PM -0400, Melanie Plageman wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 02:33:35PM +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> > On 18/03/2024 17:19, Melanie Plageman wrote:
> > > I've attached v7 rebased over this commit.
> > 
> > If we delayed table_beginscan_bm() call further, after starting the TBM
> > iterator, we could skip it altogether when the iterator is empty.
> > 
> > That's a further improvement, doesn't need to be part of this patch set.
> > Just caught my eye while reading this.
> 
> Hmm. You mean like until after the first call to tbm_[shared]_iterate()?
> AFAICT, tbm_begin_iterate() doesn't tell us anything about whether or
> not the iterator is "empty". Do you mean cases when the bitmap has no
> blocks in it? It seems like we should be able to tell that from the
> TIDBitmap.
> 
> > 
> > > v7-0003-Push-BitmapHeapScan-skip-fetch-optimization-into-.patch
> > 
> > I suggest to avoid the double negative with SO_CAN_SKIP_FETCH, and call the
> > flag e.g. SO_NEED_TUPLE.
> 
> Agreed. Done in attached v8. Though I wondered if it was a bit weird
> that the flag is set in the common case and not set in the uncommon
> case...

v8 actually attached this time

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.