Re: WIP: WAL prefetch (another approach)

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@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: 2022-03-11T06:03:18Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

On March 10, 2022 9:31:13 PM PST, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> wrote:
>  The other thing I need to change is that I should turn on
>recovery_prefetch for platforms that support it (ie Linux and maybe
>NetBSD only for now), in the tests.  

Could a setting of "try" make sense?
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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