Re: type cache cleanup improvements

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

To: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>

Cc: Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>

Date: 2024-03-08T15:35:39Z

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Commits

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Maintain RelIdToTypeIdCacheHash in TypeCacheOpcCallback()
- bb78e4267817 18.0 landed
Fix concurrrently in typcache_rel_type_cache.sql
- aa1e898dea66 18.0 landed
Avoid looping over all type cache entries in TypeCacheRelCallback()
- b85a9d046efd 18.0 landed
- c14d4acb8134 18.0 landed
Update header comment for lookup_type_cache()
- c1500a1ba7e1 18.0 landed
Revert: Avoid looping over all type cache entries in TypeCacheRelCallback()
- 8daa62a10c91 18.0 landed
Introduce hash_search_with_hash_value() function
- d0f020037e19 18.0 landed
Optimize InvalidateAttoptCacheCallback() and TypeCacheTypCallback()
- 40064a8ee1b3 18.0 landed
Refactor initial hash lookup in dynahash.c
- cc5ef90edd80 17.0 landed
Rationalize and improve error messages for some jsonpath items
- 92d2ab7554f9 17.0 cited
Avoid race in RelationBuildDesc() affecting CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY.
- fdd965d074d4 15.0 cited
Represent Lists as expansible arrays, not chains of cons-cells.
- 1cff1b95ab6d 13.0 cited

Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com> writes:
> One thing that I couldn't immediately figure out is why 0 hash value
> is treated as a magic invalid value in TypeCacheTypCallback():

I've not read this patch, but IIRC in some places we have a convention
that hash value zero is passed for an sinval reset event (that is,
"flush all cache entries").

			regards, tom lane